ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 28357

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,618
Property rate /100K (county)
2,429
Population (ZIP)
772
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 28357 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 28357 sits within Robeson County, NC, a county whose reported crime runs above the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well above the national average: 772 violent incidents and 1,618 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 28357 carries a Census-reported population of 2,429, ranking #10 of 15 ZIPs in Robeson County, spread across 35.04 square miles (about 69 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Robeson County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Robeson County crime page linked below.

ZIP 28357 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Robeson County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 28357 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
$47,336
Median age
39.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
77%
Occupied homes
1,073

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 28357?

Participating agencies give Robeson County a split reported profile: violent crime is 119% above the U.S. benchmark while property crime is 5% below it. A single "high" or "low" label would hide that difference; the submissions neither establish complete county coverage nor identify conditions within ZIP 28357. 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.

28357 is comparatively spread out at about 69 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

Robeson County UCR book ZIP 28357 inherits

ZIP 28357 itself is about 69 people per Census sq mi across 35 sq mi (2,429 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 28357 accounts for roughly 2.1% of the county reporting population (2,429 of 116,530).

Robeson County leans on larceny-theft at 37% of reported offenses (mix index 2,732). ZIP 28357 has no separate FBI offense book.

Robeson County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -22% vs 2023; property counts -14% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Robeson 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 28357

Similar county violent rate (~772/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,429)

County detail: Robeson 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.