ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 27959
Dare County, North Carolina: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 450
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 3,158
- Population (ZIP)
- 111
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 27959 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 27959 sits within Dare 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: 111 violent incidents and 450 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 27959 carries a Census-reported population of 3,158, ranking #4 of 14 ZIPs in Dare County, spread across 14.69 square miles (about 215 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Dare County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Dare County crime page linked below.
ZIP 27959 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Dare County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 27959 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
- $87,560
- Median age
- 59.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 81%
- Occupied homes
- 1,595
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 27959?
Within the participating-agency records for Dare County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 68% below and property crime is 74% 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 27959. 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.
27959 is comparatively spread out at about 215 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.
Dare County UCR book ZIP 27959 inherits
ZIP 27959 itself is about 215 people per Census sq mi across 14.7 sq mi (3,158 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 27959 accounts for roughly 8.6% of the county reporting population (3,158 of 36,915).
Dare County leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses (mix index 3,966). ZIP 27959 has no separate FBI offense book.
Dare County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +3% vs 2023; property counts +11% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Dare 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 27959
Similar county violent rate (~111/100K)
- ZIP 23829, VA · 111.1/100K · Southampton County
- ZIP 54562, WI · 111/100K · Oneida County
- ZIP 77446, TX · 110.9/100K · Waller County
- ZIP 37723, TN · 111.2/100K · Cumberland County
Similar Census population (~3,158)
- ZIP 04287, ME · 3,158 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 13461, NY · 3,158 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 54984, WI · 3,158 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 24236, VA · 3,157 pop · Δ1
County detail: Dare 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.