ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 72837

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

241
Property rate /100K (county)
8,250
Population (ZIP)
174
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 72837 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 72837 sits within Pope 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: 174 violent incidents and 241 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 72837 carries a Census-reported population of 8,250, ranking #3 of 8 ZIPs in Pope County, spread across 244.17 square miles (about 34 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Pope County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Pope County crime page linked below.

ZIP 72837 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Pope County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 72837 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
$45,171
Median age
40.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
81%
Occupied homes
3,289

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 72837?

Within the participating-agency records for Pope County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 51% below and property crime is 86% 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 72837. 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.

72837 is comparatively spread out at about 34 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.

Pope County UCR book ZIP 72837 inherits

ZIP 72837 itself is about 34 people per Census sq mi across 244.2 sq mi (8,250 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 72837 accounts for roughly 13% of the county reporting population (8,250 of 63,381).

Pope County leans on aggravated assault at 35% of reported offenses (mix index 2,713). ZIP 72837 has no separate FBI offense book.

Pope County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +10% vs 2023; property counts -13% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Pope 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 72837

Similar county violent rate (~174/100K)

Similar Census population (~8,250)

County detail: Pope 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.