ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 77003

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

699
Property rate /100K (county)
10,169
Population (ZIP)
162
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 77003 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 77003 sits within Harris 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: 162 violent incidents and 699 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

With 10,169 residents, ZIP 77003 is among the smaller ZIPs in Harris County (#125 of 132 by population), spread across 2.73 square miles (3,725/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Harris County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Harris County crime page linked below.

ZIP 77003 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Harris County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 77003 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
$87,618
Median age
33.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
46%
Occupied homes
5,354

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 77003?

Within the participating-agency records for Harris County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 54% below and property crime is 59% 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 77003. 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, 77003 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#125 of 132). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.

Harris County UCR book ZIP 77003 inherits

ZIP 77003 itself is about 3,725 people per Census sq mi across 2.7 sq mi (10,169 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 77003 is about 0.2% of the county reporting population (10,169 of 4,731,145), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Harris County leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses (mix index 3,453). ZIP 77003 has no separate FBI offense book.

Harris County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -25% vs 2023; property counts -35% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Harris 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 77003

Similar county violent rate (~162/100K)

Similar Census population (~10,169)

County detail: Harris 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.