ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 72938

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

49
Property rate /100K (county)
1,103
Population (ZIP)
17
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 72938 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 72938 sits within Sebastian County, AR. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Sebastian County reported a violent-crime rate of 17 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 49 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 22 reported violent incidents across a county population of 127,799, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

With 1,103 residents, ZIP 72938 is among the smaller ZIPs in Sebastian County (#12 of 14 by population), spread across 51.99 square miles (21/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Sebastian County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Sebastian County crime page linked below.

ZIP 72938 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Sebastian County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 72938 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
$59,375
Median age
40.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
84%
Occupied homes
411

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

Sebastian County UCR book ZIP 72938 inherits

ZIP 72938 itself is about 21 people per Census sq mi across 52 sq mi (1,103 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 72938 is about 0.9% of the county reporting population (1,103 of 127,799), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Sebastian County leans on larceny-theft at 42% of reported offenses (mix index 3,039). ZIP 72938 has no separate FBI offense book.

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

Sebastian 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 72938

Similar county violent rate (~17/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,103)

County detail: Sebastian 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.