ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 72930

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

357
Property rate /100K (county)
213
Population (ZIP)
234
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 72930 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 72930 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.

With 213 residents, ZIP 72930 is among the smaller ZIPs in Franklin County (#6 of 6 by population), spread across 37.42 square miles (6/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Franklin County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Franklin County crime page linked below.

ZIP 72930 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 72930 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
$53,580
Median age
62.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
86%
Occupied homes
117
Median home value
$121,400
Bachelor's degree or higher
9.2%
Poverty rate
0.0%
Unemployment rate
0.0%

ZIP 72930's median home value of $121,400 sits higher than 56% 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 72930?

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 72930. 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, 72930 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#6 of 6). 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.

Franklin County UCR book ZIP 72930 inherits

ZIP 72930 itself is about 6 people per Census sq mi across 37.4 sq mi (213 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 72930 is about 1.2% of the county reporting population (213 of 17,097), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Franklin County keeps 6 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,366); larceny-theft still leads at 29%. ZIP 72930 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.

Read with ZIP 72930

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.

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.