ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 28372

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)
12,346
Population (ZIP)
772
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 28372 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 28372 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 28372 carries a Census-reported population of 12,346, ranking #4 of 15 ZIPs in Robeson County, spread across 44.26 square miles (about 279 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 28372 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 28372 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
$33,788
Median age
29.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
60%
Occupied homes
4,122

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 28372?

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 28372. 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.

ZIP 28372 sits near the middle of Robeson County's ZIP population ordering (#4 of 15). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Robeson County UCR book ZIP 28372 inherits

ZIP 28372 itself is about 279 people per Census sq mi across 44.3 sq mi (12,346 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 28372 accounts for roughly 10.6% of the county reporting population (12,346 of 116,530).

Robeson County leans on larceny-theft at 37% of reported offenses (mix index 2,732). ZIP 28372 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 28372

Similar county violent rate (~772/100K)

Similar Census population (~12,346)

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.