This paper deals with the structural and electronic properties of the compound Zn3P2. Equilibrium structural properties have been calculated by fitting the energy-volume data to standard equation of state. The theoretical as well as experimental spherically averaged Compton profiles are also determined. The experiment is performed using a 5 Ci 241Am gamma-rays Compton spectrometer, allowing 59.54 keV gamma rays to get scattered by the polycrystalline sample and the corresponding theoretical profiles are obtained from linear combination of atomic orbital method within density functional theory framework. Anisotropy curves using three different directions [100], [110] and [111] are obtained for the compound and an ionic model is also proposed, which supports the transfer of 2.0 electrons from Zn to P atom. At last, equal-valence-electron-density profiles for Zn3P2 and Cd3P2 are presented, confirming more ionic characters in Zn3P2.