ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 27703

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)
60,483
Population (ZIP)
28
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 27703 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 27703 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 27703 is the largest ZIP in Durham County by population, 60,483 residents (#1 of 10 county ZIPs), across 49.07 square miles (1,233/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Durham County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Durham County crime page linked below.

ZIP 27703 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 27703 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
$82,056
Median age
36.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
65%
Occupied homes
24,603

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 27703?

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 27703. 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.

Within the county, 27703 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 10). Its 60,483 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Durham County UCR book ZIP 27703 inherits

ZIP 27703 itself is about 1,233 people per Census sq mi across 49.1 sq mi (60,483 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 27703's 60,483 residents are about 18.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (324,833), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Durham County leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses (mix index 3,130). ZIP 27703 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 27703

Similar county violent rate (~28/100K)

Similar Census population (~60,483)

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.