ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 27932

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

387
Property rate /100K (county)
12,881
Population (ZIP)
226
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 27932 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 27932 sits within Chowan County, NC, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Chowan County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 226 violent and 387 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 27932 carries a Census-reported population of 12,881, ranking #1 of 2 ZIPs in Chowan County, spread across 130.4 square miles (about 99 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Chowan County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Chowan County crime page linked below.

ZIP 27932 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Chowan County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 27932 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
$49,814
Median age
46.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
63%
Occupied homes
5,627

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 27932?

Within the participating-agency records for Chowan County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 36% below and property crime is 77% 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 27932. 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.

27932 is comparatively spread out at about 99 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.

Chowan County UCR book ZIP 27932 inherits

ZIP 27932 itself is about 99 people per Census sq mi across 130.4 sq mi (12,881 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 27932's 12,881 residents are about 94% of the 2024 county reporting population (13,708), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Chowan County leans on larceny-theft at 31% of reported offenses (mix index 2,501). ZIP 27932 has no separate FBI offense book.

Chowan County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +138% vs 2023; property counts -22% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Chowan 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 27932

Similar county violent rate (~226/100K)

Similar Census population (~12,881)

County detail: Chowan 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.