ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 72832
Johnson County, Arkansas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 190
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 713
- Population (ZIP)
- 179
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 72832 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 72832 sits within Johnson County, AR, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Johnson County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 179 violent and 190 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
ZIP 72832 carries a Census-reported population of 713, ranking #5 of 8 ZIPs in Johnson County, spread across 3.41 square miles (about 209 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Johnson County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Johnson County crime page linked below.
ZIP 72832 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Johnson County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 72832 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
- $24,620
- Median age
- 57.0 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 62%
- Occupied homes
- 311
- Median home value
- $88,300
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 10.2%
- Poverty rate
- 18.1%
- Unemployment rate
- 6.0%
ZIP 72832's median home value of $88,300 sits higher than 25% of the 501 AR ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 72832?
Within the participating-agency records for Johnson County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 49% below and property crime is 89% 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 72832. 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.
72832 is comparatively spread out at about 209 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.
Johnson County UCR book ZIP 72832 inherits
ZIP 72832 itself is about 209 people per Census sq mi across 3.4 sq mi (713 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 72832 accounts for roughly 2.8% of the county reporting population (713 of 25,749).
Johnson County leans on aggravated assault at 37% of reported offenses (mix index 2,766). ZIP 72832 has no separate FBI offense book.
Johnson County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -29% vs 2023; property counts -43% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Johnson 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 72832
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.