ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 72824

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

232
Violent rate /100K (county)
1,947
Population (ZIP)
222
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 72824 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 72824 sits within Yell County, AR, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Yell County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 232 violent and 222 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 72824 carries a Census-reported population of 1,947, ranking #4 of 11 ZIPs in Yell County, spread across 72.42 square miles (about 27 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Yell County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Yell County crime page linked below.

ZIP 72824 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Yell County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 72824 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
$73,566
Median age
40.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
67%
Occupied homes
711

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 72824?

Within the participating-agency records for Yell County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 34% below and property crime is 87% 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 72824. 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.

72824 is comparatively spread out at about 27 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.

Yell County UCR book ZIP 72824 inherits

ZIP 72824 itself is about 27 people per Census sq mi across 72.4 sq mi (1,947 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 72824 accounts for roughly 9.6% of the county reporting population (1,947 of 20,263).

Yell County leans on aggravated assault at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 3,451). ZIP 72824 has no separate FBI offense book.

Yell County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +2% vs 2023; property counts -43% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Yell 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 72824

Similar county violent rate (~232/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,947)

County detail: Yell 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.