ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 83236

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

286
Property rate /100K (county)
2,018
Population (ZIP)
81
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 83236 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 83236 sits within Bingham County, ID, 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: 81 violent incidents and 286 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 83236 carries a Census-reported population of 2,018, ranking #4 of 9 ZIPs in Bingham County, spread across 217.14 square miles (about 9 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Bingham County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Bingham County crime page linked below.

ZIP 83236 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Bingham County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 83236 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
$64,013
Median age
41.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
82%
Occupied homes
856

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 83236?

Within the participating-agency records for Bingham County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 77% below and property crime is 83% 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 83236. 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.

83236 is comparatively spread out at about 9 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.

Bingham County UCR book ZIP 83236 inherits

ZIP 83236 itself is about 9 people per Census sq mi across 217.1 sq mi (2,018 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 83236 accounts for roughly 4.2% of the county reporting population (2,018 of 47,992).

Bingham County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 3,148). ZIP 83236 has no separate FBI offense book.

Bingham County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -24% vs 2023; property counts +32% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Bingham 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 83236

Similar county violent rate (~81/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,018)

County detail: Bingham County · State atlas: Idaho

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.