ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 72520
Fulton County, Arkansas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 563
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 385
- Population (ZIP)
- 265
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 72520 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 72520 sits within Fulton 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.
Fulton County reported a violent-crime rate of 265 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 563 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 72520 carries a Census-reported population of 385, ranking #6 of 9 ZIPs in Fulton County, spread across 31.58 square miles (about 12 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Fulton County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Fulton County crime page linked below.
ZIP 72520 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Fulton County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 72520 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
- $23,761
- Median age
- 71.3 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 97%
- Occupied homes
- 263
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 7.1%
- Poverty rate
- 30.1%
- Unemployment rate
- 0.0%
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 72520?
Within the participating-agency records for Fulton County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 25% below and property crime is 67% 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 72520. 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.
72520 is comparatively spread out at about 12 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.
Fulton County UCR book ZIP 72520 inherits
ZIP 72520 itself is about 12 people per Census sq mi across 31.6 sq mi (385 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 72520 accounts for roughly 3.2% of the county reporting population (385 of 12,075).
Fulton County leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses (mix index 3,253). ZIP 72520 has no separate FBI offense book.
Fulton County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +3% vs 2023; property counts -11% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Fulton 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 72520
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.