ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 72956
Crawford County, Arkansas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 364
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 34,805
- Population (ZIP)
- 116
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 72956 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 72956 sits within Crawford 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: 116 violent incidents and 364 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 72956 is the largest ZIP in Crawford County by population, 34,805 residents (#1 of 9 county ZIPs), across 103.76 square miles (335/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Crawford County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Crawford County crime page linked below.
ZIP 72956 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Crawford County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 72956 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
- $57,625
- Median age
- 38.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 71%
- Occupied homes
- 13,251
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 72956?
Within the participating-agency records for Crawford County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 67% 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 72956. 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, 72956 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 9). Its 34,805 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.
Crawford County UCR book ZIP 72956 inherits
ZIP 72956 itself is about 335 people per Census sq mi across 103.8 sq mi (34,805 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 72956's 34,805 residents are about 57.9% of the 2024 county reporting population (60,133), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Crawford County leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses (mix index 3,666). ZIP 72956 has no separate FBI offense book.
Crawford County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +8% vs 2023; property counts -4% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Crawford 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 72956
Similar county violent rate (~116/100K)
- ZIP 93657, CA · 116.4/100K · Fresno County
- ZIP 28146, NC · 116.4/100K · Rowan County
- ZIP 95993, CA · 116.4/100K · Sutter County
- ZIP 47448, IN · 116.3/100K · Brown County
Similar Census population (~34,805)
- ZIP 94063, CA · 34,807 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 46131, IN · 34,801 pop · Δ4
- ZIP 80228, CO · 34,813 pop · Δ8
- ZIP 75701, TX · 34,822 pop · Δ17
County detail: Crawford 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.