ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 28021
Gaston County, North Carolina: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 13,702
- Population (ZIP)
- 3
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 1
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 28021 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 28021 sits within Gaston County, NC, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.
ZIP 28021 carries a Census-reported population of 13,702, ranking #8 of 14 ZIPs in Gaston County, spread across 58.83 square miles (about 233 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Gaston County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Gaston County crime page linked below.
ZIP 28021 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Gaston County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 28021 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
- $53,377
- Median age
- 40.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 76%
- Occupied homes
- 5,518
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 28021 settlement vs Gaston County
ZIP 28021 itself is about 233 people per Census sq mi across 58.8 sq mi (13,702 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 28021 accounts for roughly 6% of the county reporting population (13,702 of 227,943).
Gaston County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (78% of 9 offenses; mix index 6,543). ZIP 28021 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 28021
Similar county violent rate (~3/100K)
- ZIP 03824, NH · 3.1/100K · Strafford County
- ZIP 03246, NH · 3.1/100K · Belknap County
- ZIP 12308, NY · 3.2/100K · Schenectady County
- ZIP 11953, NY · 2.9/100K · Suffolk County
Similar Census population (~13,702)
- ZIP 31501, GA · 13,703 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 60545, IL · 13,704 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 75652, TX · 13,704 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 33403, FL · 13,698 pop · Δ4
County detail: Gaston 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.