ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 77346
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)
- 70,704
- Population (ZIP)
- 162
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 77346 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 77346 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.
ZIP 77346 is the largest ZIP in Harris County by population, 70,704 residents (#9 of 132 county ZIPs), across 17.93 square miles (3,943/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 77346 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 77346 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
- $122,321
- Median age
- 36.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 84%
- Occupied homes
- 23,614
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 77346?
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 77346. 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, 77346 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#9 of 132). Its 70,704 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.
Harris County UCR book ZIP 77346 inherits
ZIP 77346 itself is about 3,943 people per Census sq mi across 17.9 sq mi (70,704 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 77346 is about 1.5% of the county reporting population (70,704 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 77346 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 77346
Similar county violent rate (~162/100K)
- ZIP 64804, MO · 162/100K · Newton County
- ZIP 23310, VA · 162.8/100K · Northampton County
- ZIP 71671, AR · 161.2/100K · Bradley County
- ZIP 96097, CA · 163.4/100K · Siskiyou County
Similar Census population (~70,704)
- ZIP 07305, NJ · 70,738 pop · Δ34
- ZIP 94509, CA · 70,889 pop · Δ185
- ZIP 07002, NJ · 70,497 pop · Δ207
- ZIP 95123, CA · 70,952 pop · Δ248
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.