ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 27986

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

311
Property rate /100K (county)
1,875
Population (ZIP)
60
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 27986 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 27986 sits within Hertford County, NC. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Hertford County reported a violent-crime rate of 60 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 311 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 13 reported violent incidents across a county population of 21,552, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

ZIP 27986 carries a Census-reported population of 1,875, ranking #3 of 6 ZIPs in Hertford County, spread across 14.32 square miles (about 131 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Hertford County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Hertford County crime page linked below.

ZIP 27986 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Hertford County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 27986 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
$46,196
Median age
42.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
63%
Occupied homes
436

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

Hertford County UCR book ZIP 27986 inherits

ZIP 27986 itself is about 131 people per Census sq mi across 14.3 sq mi (1,875 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 27986 accounts for roughly 8.7% of the county reporting population (1,875 of 21,552).

Hertford County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 2,947). ZIP 27986 has no separate FBI offense book.

Hertford County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -27% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Hertford 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 27986

Similar county violent rate (~60/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,875)

County detail: Hertford 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.