ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 28532

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

375
Property rate /100K (county)
20,301
Population (ZIP)
89
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 28532 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 28532 sits within Craven 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: 89 violent incidents and 375 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 28532 carries a Census-reported population of 20,301, ranking #3 of 9 ZIPs in Craven County, spread across 165.42 square miles (about 123 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Craven County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Craven County crime page linked below.

ZIP 28532 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Craven County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 28532 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
$61,389
Median age
29.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
53%
Occupied homes
7,542

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 28532?

Within the participating-agency records for Craven County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 75% below and property crime is 78% 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 28532. 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.

28532 is comparatively spread out at about 123 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.

Craven County UCR book ZIP 28532 inherits

ZIP 28532 itself is about 123 people per Census sq mi across 165.4 sq mi (20,301 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 28532's 20,301 residents are about 20.2% of the 2024 county reporting population (100,720), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Craven County leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 3,191). ZIP 28532 has no separate FBI offense book.

Craven County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -24% vs 2023; property counts -23% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Craven 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 28532

Similar county violent rate (~89/100K)

Similar Census population (~20,301)

County detail: Craven 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.