ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 03281
Hillsborough County, New Hampshire: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 9,108
- Population (ZIP)
- 0
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 03281 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 03281 sits within Hillsborough County, NH, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.
ZIP 03281 carries a Census-reported population of 9,108, ranking #16 of 34 ZIPs in Hillsborough County, spread across 59.07 square miles (about 154 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Hillsborough County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Hillsborough County crime page linked below.
ZIP 03281 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Hillsborough County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 03281 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
- $109,779
- Median age
- 47.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 94%
- Occupied homes
- 3,505
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 03281 settlement vs Hillsborough County
ZIP 03281 itself is about 154 people per Census sq mi across 59.1 sq mi (9,108 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 03281 accounts for roughly 2.2% of the county reporting population (9,108 of 422,937).
Hillsborough County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (100% of 1 offenses; mix index 10,000). ZIP 03281 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 03281
Similar Census population (~9,108)
- ZIP 08628, NJ · 9,107 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 15024, PA · 9,107 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 49720, MI · 9,109 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 80543, CO · 9,109 pop · Δ1
County detail: Hillsborough County · State atlas: New Hampshire
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.