ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 72821

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

357
Property rate /100K (county)
2,271
Population (ZIP)
234
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 72821 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 72821 sits within Franklin County, AR, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Franklin County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 234 violent and 357 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 72821 carries a Census-reported population of 2,271, ranking #4 of 6 ZIPs in Franklin County, spread across 32.03 square miles (about 71 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Franklin County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Franklin County crime page linked below.

ZIP 72821 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Franklin County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 72821 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
$36,442
Median age
37.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
69%
Occupied homes
775

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 72821?

Within the participating-agency records for Franklin County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 34% below and property crime is 79% 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 72821. 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.

72821 is comparatively spread out at about 71 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.

Franklin County UCR book ZIP 72821 inherits

ZIP 72821 itself is about 71 people per Census sq mi across 32 sq mi (2,271 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 72821 accounts for roughly 13.3% of the county reporting population (2,271 of 17,097).

Franklin County keeps 6 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,366); larceny-theft still leads at 29%. ZIP 72821 inherits the county book.

Franklin County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -40% vs 2023; property counts -37% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Franklin 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 72821

Similar county violent rate (~234/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,271)

County detail: Franklin 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.