ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 76502

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

140
Property rate /100K (county)
48,508
Population (ZIP)
18
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 76502 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 76502 sits within Bell 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: 18 violent incidents and 140 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 76502 carries a Census-reported population of 48,508, ranking #3 of 17 ZIPs in Bell County, spread across 58.27 square miles (about 832 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Bell County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Bell County crime page linked below.

ZIP 76502 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Bell County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 76502 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
$77,704
Median age
34.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
65%
Occupied homes
17,425

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 76502?

Within the participating-agency records for Bell County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 95% below and property crime is 92% 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 76502. 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.

ZIP 76502 sits near the middle of Bell County's ZIP population ordering (#3 of 17). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Bell County UCR book ZIP 76502 inherits

ZIP 76502 itself is about 832 people per Census sq mi across 58.3 sq mi (48,508 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 76502 accounts for roughly 13.1% of the county reporting population (48,508 of 370,647).

Bell County leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses (mix index 3,883). ZIP 76502 has no separate FBI offense book.

Bell County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +2% vs 2023; property counts -12% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Bell 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 76502

Similar county violent rate (~18/100K)

Similar Census population (~48,508)

County detail: Bell 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.