ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 72532

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

457
Property rate /100K (county)
1,045
Population (ZIP)
203
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 72532 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 72532 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.

With 1,045 residents, ZIP 72532 is among the smaller ZIPs in Sharp County (#6 of 7 by population), spread across 97.5 square miles (11/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 72532 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 72532 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
$35,625
Median age
56.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
90%
Occupied homes
442
Median home value
$101,300
Bachelor's degree or higher
7.7%
Poverty rate
9.6%
Unemployment rate
3.6%

ZIP 72532's median home value of $101,300 sits higher than 40% of the 501 AR ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.

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 72532?

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 72532. 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, 72532 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#6 of 7). 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.

Sharp County UCR book ZIP 72532 inherits

ZIP 72532 itself is about 11 people per Census sq mi across 97.5 sq mi (1,045 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 72532 accounts for roughly 6.1% of the county reporting population (1,045 of 17,271).

Sharp County leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses (mix index 3,563). ZIP 72532 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 72532

Similar county violent rate (~203/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,045)

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.