ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 28411
New Hanover County, North Carolina: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 549
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 36,536
- Population (ZIP)
- 65
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 28411 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 28411 sits within New Hanover 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: 65 violent incidents and 549 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 28411 carries a Census-reported population of 36,536, ranking #3 of 10 ZIPs in New Hanover County, spread across 41.22 square miles (about 886 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of New Hanover County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the New Hanover County crime page linked below.
ZIP 28411 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from New Hanover County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 28411 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
- $91,121
- Median age
- 41.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 77%
- Occupied homes
- 15,436
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 28411?
Within the participating-agency records for New Hanover County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 82% below and property crime is 68% 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 28411. 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 28411 sits near the middle of New Hanover County's ZIP population ordering (#3 of 10). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
New Hanover County UCR book ZIP 28411 inherits
ZIP 28411 itself is about 886 people per Census sq mi across 41.2 sq mi (36,536 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 28411's 36,536 residents are about 16.2% of the 2024 county reporting population (225,702), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
New Hanover County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 1,385 offenses; mix index 5,476). ZIP 28411 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
New Hanover County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +10% vs 2023; property counts +3% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
New Hanover 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 28411
Similar county violent rate (~65/100K)
- ZIP 73086, OK · 64.7/100K · Murray County
- ZIP 78723, TX · 64.6/100K · Travis County
- ZIP 98513, WA · 64.8/100K · Thurston County
- ZIP 97477, OR · 64.5/100K · Lane County
Similar Census population (~36,536)
- ZIP 07106, NJ · 36,538 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 89523, NV · 36,538 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 60477, IL · 36,543 pop · Δ7
- ZIP 78596, TX · 36,545 pop · Δ9
County detail: New Hanover 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.