ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 28098

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

3,573
Population (ZIP)
3
Violent rate /100K (county)
1
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 28098 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 28098 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 28098 carries a Census-reported population of 3,573, ranking #10 of 14 ZIPs in Gaston County, spread across 3.64 square miles (about 982 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 28098 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 28098 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
$58,281
Median age
38.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
76%
Occupied homes
1,435

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

ZIP 28098 settlement vs Gaston County

ZIP 28098 itself is about 982 people per Census sq mi across 3.6 sq mi (3,573 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 28098 is about 1.6% of the county reporting population (3,573 of 227,943), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Gaston County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (78% of 9 offenses; mix index 6,543). ZIP 28098 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 28098

Similar county violent rate (~3/100K)

Similar Census population (~3,573)

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.