ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 76520

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

376
Property rate /100K (county)
7,878
Population (ZIP)
109
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 76520 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 76520 sits within Milam County, TX. 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.

Milam County reported a violent-crime rate of 109 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 376 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 27 reported violent incidents across a county population of 24,754, 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.

ZIP 76520 carries a Census-reported population of 7,878, ranking #2 of 8 ZIPs in Milam County, spread across 256.51 square miles (about 31 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Milam County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Milam County crime page linked below.

ZIP 76520 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Milam County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 76520 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
$59,340
Median age
37.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
73%
Occupied homes
2,731

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

Milam County UCR book ZIP 76520 inherits

ZIP 76520 itself is about 31 people per Census sq mi across 256.5 sq mi (7,878 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 76520's 7,878 residents are about 31.8% of the 2024 county reporting population (24,754), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Milam County leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses (mix index 3,294). ZIP 76520 has no separate FBI offense book.

Milam County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +72% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Milam 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 76520

Similar county violent rate (~109/100K)

Similar Census population (~7,878)

County detail: Milam 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.