ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 27509
Granville County, North Carolina: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 448
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 7,196
- Population (ZIP)
- 112
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 27509 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 27509 sits within Granville 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: 112 violent incidents and 448 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 27509 carries a Census-reported population of 7,196, ranking #3 of 6 ZIPs in Granville County, spread across 14.66 square miles (about 491 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Granville County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Granville County crime page linked below.
ZIP 27509 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Granville County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 27509 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
- $67,859
- Median age
- 43.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 64%
- Occupied homes
- 1,281
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 27509?
Within the participating-agency records for Granville County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 68% below and property crime is 74% 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 27509. 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.
ZIP 27509 sits near the middle of Granville County's ZIP population ordering (#3 of 6). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Granville County UCR book ZIP 27509 inherits
ZIP 27509 itself is about 491 people per Census sq mi across 14.7 sq mi (7,196 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 27509 accounts for roughly 11.8% of the county reporting population (7,196 of 60,992).
Granville County leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses (mix index 2,913). ZIP 27509 has no separate FBI offense book.
Granville County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -3% vs 2023; property counts +6% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Granville 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 27509
Similar county violent rate (~112/100K)
- ZIP 76692, TX · 111.5/100K · Hill County
- ZIP 38828, MS · 111.6/100K · Union County
- ZIP 38558, TN · 111.2/100K · Cumberland County
- ZIP 23837, VA · 111.1/100K · Southampton County
Similar Census population (~7,196)
- ZIP 61341, IL · 7,196 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 29477, SC · 7,195 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 98675, WA · 7,198 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 54963, WI · 7,200 pop · Δ4
County detail: Granville 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.