ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 27980
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)
- 1,572
- Population (ZIP)
- 226
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 27980 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 27980 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.
With 1,572 residents, ZIP 27980 is among the smaller ZIPs in Chowan County (#2 of 2 by population), spread across 48.75 square miles (32/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Chowan County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Chowan County crime page linked below.
ZIP 27980 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 27980 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
- $72,528
- Median age
- 50.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 77%
- Occupied homes
- 724
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 27980?
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 27980. 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, 27980 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#2 of 2). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.
Chowan County UCR book ZIP 27980 inherits
ZIP 27980 itself is about 32 people per Census sq mi across 48.8 sq mi (1,572 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 27980 accounts for roughly 11.5% of the county reporting population (1,572 of 13,708).
Chowan County leans on larceny-theft at 31% of reported offenses (mix index 2,501). ZIP 27980 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 27980
Similar county violent rate (~226/100K)
- ZIP 38057, TN · 226.2/100K · Fayette County
- ZIP 20670, MD · 225.9/100K · St. Mary's County
- ZIP 65785, MO · 225.5/100K · Cedar County
- ZIP 72157, AR · 226.9/100K · Conway County
Similar Census population (~1,572)
- ZIP 17935, PA · 1,572 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 36907, AL · 1,572 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 49411, MI · 1,572 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 63837, MO · 1,572 pop · Δ0
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.