ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 71972
Polk County, Arkansas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 297
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 401
- Population (ZIP)
- 151
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 71972 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 71972 sits within Polk 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.
Polk County reported a violent-crime rate of 297 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 151 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
With 401 residents, ZIP 71972 is among the smaller ZIPs in Polk County (#6 of 6 by population), spread across 40.34 square miles (10/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Polk County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Polk County crime page linked below.
ZIP 71972 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Polk County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 71972 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 household income
- $64,038
- Median age
- 31.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 70%
- Occupied homes
- 124
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 20.6%
- Poverty rate
- 14.0%
- Unemployment rate
- 2.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 71972?
Within the participating-agency records for Polk County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 16% below and property crime is 91% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 71972. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.
Within the county, 71972 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#6 of 6). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.
Polk County UCR book ZIP 71972 inherits
ZIP 71972 itself is about 10 people per Census sq mi across 40.3 sq mi (401 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 71972 accounts for roughly 2.1% of the county reporting population (401 of 19,221).
Polk County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (63% of 86 offenses; mix index 4,557). ZIP 71972 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Polk County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -17% vs 2023; property counts -44% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Polk 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 71972
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.