ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 28146

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

409
Property rate /100K (county)
32,181
Population (ZIP)
116
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 28146 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 28146 sits within Rowan 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: 116 violent incidents and 409 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 28146 is the largest ZIP in Rowan County by population, 32,181 residents (#1 of 14 county ZIPs), across 97.12 square miles (331/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Rowan County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Rowan County crime page linked below.

ZIP 28146 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Rowan County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 28146 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
$64,547
Median age
42.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
82%
Occupied homes
12,548

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 28146?

Within the participating-agency records for Rowan County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 67% below and property crime is 76% 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 28146. 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, 28146 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 14). Its 32,181 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Rowan County UCR book ZIP 28146 inherits

ZIP 28146 itself is about 331 people per Census sq mi across 97.1 sq mi (32,181 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 28146's 32,181 residents are about 21.9% of the 2024 county reporting population (146,875), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Rowan County leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses (mix index 3,363). ZIP 28146 has no separate FBI offense book.

Rowan County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +36% vs 2023; property counts -15% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Rowan 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 28146

Similar county violent rate (~116/100K)

Similar Census population (~32,181)

County detail: Rowan 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.