What is the crime rate for ZIP code 28108?

ZIP 28108 (Union County, NC) doesn't have its own FBI crime figure, ZIP codes aren't law-enforcement jurisdictions. The containing county reported 85 violent incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, below the national average.

What county is ZIP code 28108 in?

ZIP code 28108 is located in Union County, NC.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 28108

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-09-05

520
Property rate /100K (county): 27
Population (ZIP): 85
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 28108 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 28108 sits within Union 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: 85 violent incidents and 520 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

With 27 residents, ZIP 28108 is among the smaller ZIPs in Union County (#8 of 8 by population), spread across 0.21 square miles (129/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Union County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Union County crime page linked below.

ZIP 28108 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Union County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 28108 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.

Owner-occupied homes: 100%
Occupied homes: 14
Bachelor's degree or higher: 0.0%
Poverty rate: 0.0%
Unemployment rate: 0.0%

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

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 28108?

Within the participating-agency records for Union County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 76% below and property crime is 70% 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 28108. 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, 28108 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#8 of 8). 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.

Union County UCR book ZIP 28108 inherits

ZIP 28108 itself is about 129 people per Census sq mi across 0.2 sq mi (27 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 28108 is about 0% of the county reporting population (27 of 238,267), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Union County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 1,442 offenses; mix index 4,268). ZIP 28108 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Union County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +9% vs 2023; property counts -5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Union County offense mix (2024)

Larceny-Theft 891 offenses (62%) Burglary 245 offenses (17%) Aggravated Assault 141 offenses (10%) Motor Vehicle Theft 104 offenses (7%) Rape 53 offenses (4%) Robbery 6 offenses (0%) Murder 2 offenses (0%)

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.

Read with ZIP 28108

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.