ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 72521

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

457
Property rate /100K (county)
5,556
Population (ZIP)
203
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 72521 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 72521 sits within Sharp County, AR, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Sharp County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 203 violent and 457 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 72521 is the largest ZIP in Sharp County by population, 5,556 residents (#1 of 7 county ZIPs), across 118.73 square miles (47/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Sharp County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Sharp County crime page linked below.

ZIP 72521 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Sharp County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 72521 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
$48,152
Median age
38.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
69%
Occupied homes
1,986

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 72521?

Within the participating-agency records for Sharp County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 42% below and property crime is 73% 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 72521. 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, 72521 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 7). Its 5,556 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Sharp County UCR book ZIP 72521 inherits

ZIP 72521 itself is about 47 people per Census sq mi across 118.7 sq mi (5,556 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 72521's 5,556 residents are about 32.2% of the 2024 county reporting population (17,271), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Sharp County leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses (mix index 3,563). ZIP 72521 has no separate FBI offense book.

Sharp 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 72521

Similar county violent rate (~203/100K)

Similar Census population (~5,556)

County detail: Sharp 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.