ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 28546

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

629
Property rate /100K (county)
47,841
Population (ZIP)
147
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 28546 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 28546 sits within Onslow 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: 147 violent incidents and 629 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 28546 carries a Census-reported population of 47,841, ranking #2 of 13 ZIPs in Onslow County, spread across 103.95 square miles (about 460 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Onslow County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Onslow County crime page linked below.

ZIP 28546 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Onslow County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 28546 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
$56,434
Median age
28.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
54%
Occupied homes
18,854

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 28546?

Within the participating-agency records for Onslow County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 58% below and property crime is 63% 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 28546. 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 28546 sits near the middle of Onslow County's ZIP population ordering (#2 of 13). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Onslow County UCR book ZIP 28546 inherits

ZIP 28546 itself is about 460 people per Census sq mi across 104 sq mi (47,841 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 28546's 47,841 residents are about 23.4% of the 2024 county reporting population (204,576), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Onslow County leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses (mix index 3,301). ZIP 28546 has no separate FBI offense book.

Onslow County 2024 vs 2020: violent counts +85% vs 2020; property counts -10% vs 2020. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Onslow 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 28546

Similar county violent rate (~147/100K)

Similar Census population (~47,841)

County detail: Onslow 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.