ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 72744
Washington County, Arkansas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 108
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 4,936
- Population (ZIP)
- 59
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 72744 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 72744 sits within Washington 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: 59 violent incidents and 108 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 72744 carries a Census-reported population of 4,936, ranking #9 of 14 ZIPs in Washington County, spread across 79.02 square miles (about 62 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Washington County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Washington County crime page linked below.
ZIP 72744 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Washington County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 72744 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
- $56,638
- Median age
- 36.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 66%
- Occupied homes
- 1,848
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 72744?
Within the participating-agency records for Washington County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 83% below and property crime is 94% 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 72744. 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.
72744 is comparatively spread out at about 62 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.
Washington County UCR book ZIP 72744 inherits
ZIP 72744 itself is about 62 people per Census sq mi across 79 sq mi (4,936 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 72744 is about 2% of the county reporting population (4,936 of 245,871), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Washington County keeps 8 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,487); larceny-theft still leads at 33%. ZIP 72744 inherits the county book.
Washington County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -8% vs 2023; property counts -25% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Washington 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 72744
Similar county violent rate (~59/100K)
- ZIP 56479, MN · 59.4/100K · Todd County
- ZIP 77534, TX · 59.4/100K · Brazoria County
- ZIP 52772, IA · 59.4/100K · Cedar County
- ZIP 57025, SD · 59.5/100K · Union County
Similar Census population (~4,936)
- ZIP 12123, NY · 4,938 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 56636, MN · 4,938 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 13624, NY · 4,933 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 84312, UT · 4,939 pop · Δ3
County detail: Washington 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.