ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 23487

Isle of Wight County, Virginia: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

430
Property rate /100K (county)
5,978
Population (ZIP)
117
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 23487 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 23487 sits within Isle of Wight County, VA, 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: 117 violent incidents and 430 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 23487 carries a Census-reported population of 5,978, ranking #3 of 6 ZIPs in Isle of Wight County, spread across 95.38 square miles (about 63 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Isle of Wight County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Isle of Wight County crime page linked below.

ZIP 23487 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Isle of Wight County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 23487 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
$75,634
Median age
42.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
78%
Occupied homes
2,276

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 23487?

Within the participating-agency records for Isle of Wight County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 67% below and property crime is 75% 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 23487. 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.

23487 is comparatively spread out at about 63 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.

Isle of Wight County UCR book ZIP 23487 inherits

ZIP 23487 itself is about 63 people per Census sq mi across 95.4 sq mi (5,978 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 23487's 5,978 residents are about 15.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (38,606), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Isle of Wight County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 211 offenses; mix index 4,674). ZIP 23487 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Isle of Wight County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +13% vs 2023; property counts +1% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Isle of Wight 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 23487

Similar county violent rate (~117/100K)

Similar Census population (~5,978)

County detail: Isle of Wight County · State atlas: Virginia

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.