ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 72734
Benton County, Arkansas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 87
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 8,589
- Population (ZIP)
- 39
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 72734 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 72734 sits within Benton 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: 39 violent incidents and 87 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 72734 carries a Census-reported population of 8,589, ranking #11 of 18 ZIPs in Benton County, spread across 81.57 square miles (about 105 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Benton County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Benton County crime page linked below.
ZIP 72734 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Benton County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 72734 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
- $64,661
- Median age
- 38.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 76%
- Occupied homes
- 3,195
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 72734?
Within the participating-agency records for Benton County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 89% below and property crime is 95% 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 72734. 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.
72734 is comparatively spread out at about 105 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.
Benton County UCR book ZIP 72734 inherits
ZIP 72734 itself is about 105 people per Census sq mi across 81.6 sq mi (8,589 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 72734 accounts for roughly 3% of the county reporting population (8,589 of 284,333).
Benton County leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses (mix index 3,034). ZIP 72734 has no separate FBI offense book.
Benton County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -11% vs 2023; property counts -14% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Benton 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 72734
Similar county violent rate (~39/100K)
- ZIP 58852, ND · 39.1/100K · Williams County
- ZIP 14891, NY · 39.1/100K · Schuyler County
- ZIP 61874, IL · 38.9/100K · Champaign County
- ZIP 57754, SD · 38.8/100K · Lawrence County
Similar Census population (~8,589)
- ZIP 76655, TX · 8,591 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 35096, AL · 8,586 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 18069, PA · 8,593 pop · Δ4
- ZIP 59270, MT · 8,585 pop · Δ4
County detail: Benton 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.