ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 72117

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

292
Property rate /100K (county)
14,452
Population (ZIP)
112
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 72117 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 72117 sits within Pulaski County, AR, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 112 violent incidents and 292 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 72117 carries a Census-reported population of 14,452, ranking #12 of 26 ZIPs in Pulaski County, spread across 54.38 square miles (about 266 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Pulaski County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Pulaski County crime page linked below.

ZIP 72117 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Pulaski County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 72117 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
$38,438
Median age
36.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
62%
Occupied homes
5,652

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

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 72117?

Within the participating-agency records for Pulaski County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 68% below and property crime is 83% 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 72117. 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.

ZIP 72117 sits near the middle of Pulaski County's ZIP population ordering (#12 of 26). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Pulaski County UCR book ZIP 72117 inherits

ZIP 72117 itself is about 266 people per Census sq mi across 54.4 sq mi (14,452 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 72117 accounts for roughly 3.6% of the county reporting population (14,452 of 399,125).

Pulaski County leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 3,136). ZIP 72117 has no separate FBI offense book.

Pulaski County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -4% vs 2023; property counts -11% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Pulaski 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.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 72117

Similar county violent rate (~112/100K)

Similar Census population (~14,452)

County detail: Pulaski County · State atlas: Arkansas

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.