ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 28461

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

642
Property rate /100K (county)
22,255
Population (ZIP)
143
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 28461 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 28461 sits within Brunswick 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: 143 violent incidents and 642 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 28461 carries a Census-reported population of 22,255, ranking #2 of 12 ZIPs in Brunswick County, spread across 75.91 square miles (about 293 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Brunswick County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Brunswick County crime page linked below.

ZIP 28461 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Brunswick County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 28461 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
$77,470
Median age
61.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
85%
Occupied homes
10,108

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 28461?

Within the participating-agency records for Brunswick County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 59% below and property crime is 62% 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 28461. 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 28461 sits near the middle of Brunswick County's ZIP population ordering (#2 of 12). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Brunswick County UCR book ZIP 28461 inherits

ZIP 28461 itself is about 293 people per Census sq mi across 75.9 sq mi (22,255 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 28461's 22,255 residents are about 16.3% of the 2024 county reporting population (136,693), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Brunswick County leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses (mix index 3,641). ZIP 28461 has no separate FBI offense book.

Brunswick County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +3% vs 2023; property counts +12% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Brunswick 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 28461

Similar county violent rate (~143/100K)

Similar Census population (~22,255)

County detail: Brunswick 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.