ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 72581
Cleburne County, Arkansas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 1,040
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 957
- Population (ZIP)
- 567
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 72581 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 72581 sits within Cleburne County, AR, a county whose reported crime runs above the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Cleburne County's reported crime sits somewhat above the national average: 567 violent and 1,040 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
ZIP 72581 carries a Census-reported population of 957, ranking #6 of 10 ZIPs in Cleburne County, spread across 12.07 square miles (about 79 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Cleburne County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cleburne County crime page linked below.
ZIP 72581 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Cleburne County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 72581 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
- $37,368
- Median age
- 60.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 94%
- Occupied homes
- 482
- Median home value
- $136,800
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 20.2%
- Poverty rate
- 4.9%
- Unemployment rate
- 1.7%
ZIP 72581's median home value of $136,800 sits higher than 66% 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 72581?
Participating agencies give Cleburne County a split reported profile: violent crime is 61% above the U.S. benchmark while property crime is 39% below it. A single "high" or "low" label would hide that difference; the submissions neither establish complete county coverage nor identify conditions within ZIP 72581. 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.
72581 is comparatively spread out at about 79 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.
Cleburne County UCR book ZIP 72581 inherits
ZIP 72581 itself is about 79 people per Census sq mi across 12.1 sq mi (957 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 72581 accounts for roughly 3.9% of the county reporting population (957 of 24,711).
Cleburne County leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses (mix index 2,942). ZIP 72581 has no separate FBI offense book.
Cleburne County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -16% vs 2023; property counts +27% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Cleburne 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 72581
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.