ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 76462
Hood County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 562
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 4,669
- Population (ZIP)
- 136
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 76462 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 76462 sits within Hood County, TX, 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: 136 violent incidents and 562 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 76462 carries a Census-reported population of 4,669, ranking #3 of 4 ZIPs in Hood County, spread across 173 square miles (about 27 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Hood County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Hood County crime page linked below.
ZIP 76462 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Hood County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 76462 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
- $94,167
- Median age
- 39.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 86%
- Occupied homes
- 1,478
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 76462?
Within the participating-agency records for Hood County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 61% below and property crime is 67% 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 76462. 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.
76462 is comparatively spread out at about 27 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.
Hood County UCR book ZIP 76462 inherits
ZIP 76462 itself is about 27 people per Census sq mi across 173 sq mi (4,669 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 76462 accounts for roughly 7.6% of the county reporting population (4,669 of 61,598).
Hood County leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses (mix index 3,860). ZIP 76462 has no separate FBI offense book.
Hood County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -11% vs 2023; property counts +5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Hood 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 76462
Similar county violent rate (~136/100K)
- ZIP 23958, VA · 136.5/100K · Appomattox County
- ZIP 57262, SD · 136.2/100K · Roberts County
- ZIP 65793, MO · 135.8/100K · Howell County
- ZIP 36352, AL · 137.1/100K · Houston County
Similar Census population (~4,669)
- ZIP 71968, AR · 4,668 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 65483, MO · 4,667 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 32950, FL · 4,666 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 61846, IL · 4,666 pop · Δ3
County detail: Hood County · State atlas: Texas
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.