ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 71866

Little River County, Arkansas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-09-05

516
Property rate /100K (county)
497
Population (ZIP)
241
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 71866 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 71866 sits within Little River County, AR. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Little River County reported a violent-crime rate of 241 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 516 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 29 reported violent incidents across a county population of 12,026, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

ZIP 71866 carries a Census-reported population of 497, ranking #3 of 6 ZIPs in Little River County, spread across 53.01 square miles (about 9 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Little River County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Little River County crime page linked below.

ZIP 71866 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Little River County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 71866 Census context

These are ZIP/ZCTA demographic estimates, separate from the county-level FBI proxy above. They describe the local settlement, not a crime rate.

Median age
35.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
70%
Occupied homes
204
Median home value
$229,900
Bachelor's degree or higher
24.0%
Poverty rate
6.0%
Unemployment rate
12.3%

ZIP 71866's median home value of $229,900 is higher than 94% of the 501 AR ZIPs with a reported value, one of the priciest in the state by this measure.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).

Little River County UCR book ZIP 71866 inherits

ZIP 71866 itself is about 9 people per Census sq mi across 53 sq mi (497 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 71866 accounts for roughly 4.1% of the county reporting population (497 of 12,026).

Little River County leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 2,922). ZIP 71866 has no separate FBI offense book.

Little River County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +29% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Little River County offense mix (2024)

Mix index is HHI × 10,000 on county offense-type shares. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero; still county-agency data, not a ZIP-native FBI table.

Read with ZIP 71866

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau (ZIP population, land area, 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file, ACS 5-year estimates) and FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10 (county-level crime, attributed via ZIP-to-county crosswalk).

Verify with Census.gov Geography and FBI.gov UCR.

Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page combines Census ZIP-level figures with a ZIP-to-county crosswalk to attribute FBI UCR crime data honestly, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.