ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 77461
Fort Bend County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 631
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 12,719
- Population (ZIP)
- 100
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 77461 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 77461 sits within Fort Bend 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: 100 violent incidents and 631 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 77461 carries a Census-reported population of 12,719, ranking #15 of 21 ZIPs in Fort Bend County, spread across 150.81 square miles (about 84 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Fort Bend County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Fort Bend County crime page linked below.
ZIP 77461 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Fort Bend County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 77461 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
- $69,766
- Median age
- 36.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 79%
- Occupied homes
- 4,136
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 77461?
Within the participating-agency records for Fort Bend County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 72% below and property crime is 63% 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 77461. 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.
77461 is comparatively spread out at about 84 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.
Fort Bend County UCR book ZIP 77461 inherits
ZIP 77461 itself is about 84 people per Census sq mi across 150.8 sq mi (12,719 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 77461 is about 1.5% of the county reporting population (12,719 of 822,779), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Fort Bend County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 6,015 offenses; mix index 4,869). ZIP 77461 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Fort Bend County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -3% vs 2023; property counts +5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Fort Bend 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 77461
Similar county violent rate (~100/100K)
- ZIP 81052, CO · 100/100K · Prowers County
- ZIP 21102, MD · 100.1/100K · Carroll County
- ZIP 47446, IN · 100/100K · Lawrence County
- ZIP 49660, MI · 99.9/100K · Manistee County
Similar Census population (~12,719)
- ZIP 52627, IA · 12,719 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 14586, NY · 12,720 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 11764, NY · 12,711 pop · Δ8
- ZIP 16137, PA · 12,710 pop · Δ9
County detail: Fort Bend 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.