ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 72829

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

232
Violent rate /100K (county)
222
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 72829 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 72829 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 72829 shows a Census-reported population of zero, consistent with a non-residential ZIP (a PO-box-only, business-only, or otherwise unpopulated postal code). For a full breakdown of Yell County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Yell County crime page linked below.

ZIP 72829 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.

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 72829?

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 72829. 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.

Within the county, 72829 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#11 of 11). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.

Yell County UCR book ZIP 72829 inherits

ZIP 72829 itself is about 0 people per Census sq mi across 0.8 sq mi (0 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 72829 is about 0% of the county reporting population (0 of 20,263), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Yell County leans on aggravated assault at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 3,451). ZIP 72829 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.

Read with ZIP 72829

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.