ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 28480
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)
- 2,899
- Population (ZIP)
- 65
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 28480 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 28480 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.
With 2,899 residents, ZIP 28480 is among the smaller ZIPs in New Hanover County (#9 of 10 by population), spread across 3.9 square miles (743/sq mi). 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 28480 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 28480 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
- $121,417
- Median age
- 52.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 78%
- Occupied homes
- 1,341
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 28480?
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 28480. 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, 28480 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#9 of 10). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.
New Hanover County UCR book ZIP 28480 inherits
ZIP 28480 itself is about 743 people per Census sq mi across 3.9 sq mi (2,899 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 28480 is about 1.3% of the county reporting population (2,899 of 225,702), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
New Hanover County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 1,385 offenses; mix index 5,476). ZIP 28480 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 28480
Similar county violent rate (~65/100K)
- ZIP 73030, OK · 64.7/100K · Murray County
- ZIP 78719, TX · 64.6/100K · Travis County
- ZIP 98576, WA · 64.8/100K · Thurston County
- ZIP 97437, OR · 64.5/100K · Lane County
Similar Census population (~2,899)
- ZIP 30258, GA · 2,899 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 48427, MI · 2,899 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 03440, NH · 2,900 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 35073, AL · 2,898 pop · Δ1
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.