ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 27958

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

836
Property rate /100K (county)
12,612
Population (ZIP)
246
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 27958 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 27958 sits within Currituck County, NC, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Currituck County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 246 violent and 836 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 27958 is the largest ZIP in Currituck County by population, 12,612 residents (#1 of 15 county ZIPs), across 79.83 square miles (158/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Currituck County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Currituck County crime page linked below.

ZIP 27958 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Currituck County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 27958 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
$102,229
Median age
36.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
90%
Occupied homes
4,329

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 27958?

Within the participating-agency records for Currituck County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 30% below and property crime is 51% 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 27958. 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, 27958 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 15). Its 12,612 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Currituck County UCR book ZIP 27958 inherits

ZIP 27958 itself is about 158 people per Census sq mi across 79.8 sq mi (12,612 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 27958's 12,612 residents are about 44.9% of the 2024 county reporting population (28,100), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Currituck County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 304 offenses; mix index 4,004). ZIP 27958 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Currituck County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -14% vs 2023; property counts -1% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Currituck 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 27958

Similar county violent rate (~246/100K)

Similar Census population (~12,612)

County detail: Currituck 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.