ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 28043

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

664
Property rate /100K (county)
21,264
Population (ZIP)
124
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 28043 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 28043 sits within Rutherford 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: 124 violent incidents and 664 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 28043 is the largest ZIP in Rutherford County by population, 21,264 residents (#1 of 12 county ZIPs), across 66.28 square miles (321/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Rutherford County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Rutherford County crime page linked below.

ZIP 28043 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Rutherford County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 28043 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
$43,770
Median age
37.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
63%
Occupied homes
8,146

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 28043?

Within the participating-agency records for Rutherford County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 65% below and property crime is 61% 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 28043. 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, 28043 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 12). Its 21,264 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Rutherford County UCR book ZIP 28043 inherits

ZIP 28043 itself is about 321 people per Census sq mi across 66.3 sq mi (21,264 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 28043's 21,264 residents are about 33% of the 2024 county reporting population (64,444), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Rutherford County leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses (mix index 3,215). ZIP 28043 has no separate FBI offense book.

Rutherford County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +13% vs 2023; property counts +47% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Rutherford 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 28043

Similar county violent rate (~124/100K)

Similar Census population (~21,264)

County detail: Rutherford 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.