ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 27831

Northampton County, North Carolina: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

2,003
Property rate /100K (county)
2,522
Population (ZIP)
418
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 27831 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 27831 sits within Northampton County, NC. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Northampton County reported a violent-crime rate of 418 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 2,003 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 27831 is the largest ZIP in Northampton County by population, 2,522 residents (#1 of 12 county ZIPs), across 62.25 square miles (41/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Northampton County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Northampton County crime page linked below.

ZIP 27831 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Northampton County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 27831 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
$29,940
Median age
54.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
72%
Occupied homes
1,346

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 27831?

Within the participating-agency records for Northampton County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit above their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 19% above and property crime is 17% above. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or locate crime inside ZIP 27831. 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, 27831 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 12). Its 2,522 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Northampton County UCR book ZIP 27831 inherits

ZIP 27831 itself is about 41 people per Census sq mi across 62.3 sq mi (2,522 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 27831 accounts for roughly 14.4% of the county reporting population (2,522 of 17,471).

Northampton County leans on larceny-theft at 39% of reported offenses (mix index 3,097). ZIP 27831 has no separate FBI offense book.

Northampton 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 27831

Similar county violent rate (~418/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,522)

County detail: Northampton 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.