ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 27858

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

341
Property rate /100K (county)
57,075
Population (ZIP)
113
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 27858 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 27858 sits within Pitt 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: 113 violent incidents and 341 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 27858 is the largest ZIP in Pitt County by population, 57,075 residents (#1 of 12 county ZIPs), across 61.4 square miles (930/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Pitt County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Pitt County crime page linked below.

ZIP 27858 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Pitt County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 27858 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
$56,533
Median age
25.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
44%
Occupied homes
22,988
Median home value
$218,100
Bachelor's degree or higher
44.6%
Poverty rate
22.6%
Unemployment rate
9.6%

ZIP 27858's median home value of $218,100 sits higher than 60% of the 600 NC ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 27858?

Within the participating-agency records for Pitt County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 68% below and property crime is 80% 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 27858. 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, 27858 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 12). Its 57,075 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Pitt County UCR book ZIP 27858 inherits

ZIP 27858 itself is about 930 people per Census sq mi across 61.4 sq mi (57,075 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 27858's 57,075 residents are about 33.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (170,243), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Pitt County leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses (mix index 3,373). ZIP 27858 has no separate FBI offense book.

Pitt County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +5% vs 2023; property counts -7% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Pitt 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 27858

Similar county violent rate (~113/100K)

Similar Census population (~57,075)

County detail: Pitt 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.