ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 27503
Durham County, North Carolina: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 152
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 6,030
- Population (ZIP)
- 28
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 27503 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 27503 sits within Durham County, NC, 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: 28 violent incidents and 152 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 27503 carries a Census-reported population of 6,030, ranking #8 of 10 ZIPs in Durham County, spread across 37.76 square miles (about 160 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Durham County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Durham County crime page linked below.
ZIP 27503 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Durham County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 27503 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
- $81,660
- Median age
- 48.3 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 87%
- Occupied homes
- 1,365
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 27503?
Within the participating-agency records for Durham County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 92% below and property crime is 91% 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 27503. 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.
27503 is comparatively spread out at about 160 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.
Durham County UCR book ZIP 27503 inherits
ZIP 27503 itself is about 160 people per Census sq mi across 37.8 sq mi (6,030 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 27503 is about 1.9% of the county reporting population (6,030 of 324,833), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Durham County leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses (mix index 3,130). ZIP 27503 has no separate FBI offense book.
Durham County 2024 vs 2022: violent counts +3% vs 2022; property counts +17% vs 2022. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Durham 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 27503
Similar county violent rate (~28/100K)
- ZIP 30641, GA · 27.9/100K · Walton County
- ZIP 84754, UT · 27.9/100K · Sevier County
- ZIP 49938, MI · 27.8/100K · Gogebic County
- ZIP 13339, NY · 28.3/100K · Montgomery County
Similar Census population (~6,030)
- ZIP 07465, NJ · 6,032 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 15627, PA · 6,032 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 15133, PA · 6,033 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 38126, TN · 6,034 pop · Δ4
County detail: Durham County · State atlas: North Carolina
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.