ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 28670

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

650
Property rate /100K (county)
2,451
Population (ZIP)
183
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 28670 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 28670 sits within Wilkes County, NC, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Wilkes County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 183 violent and 650 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 28670 carries a Census-reported population of 2,451, ranking #8 of 12 ZIPs in Wilkes County, spread across 38.02 square miles (about 64 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Wilkes County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Wilkes County crime page linked below.

ZIP 28670 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Wilkes County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 28670 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
$48,641
Median age
50.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
77%
Occupied homes
875

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 28670?

Within the participating-agency records for Wilkes County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 48% 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 28670. 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.

28670 is comparatively spread out at about 64 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.

Wilkes County UCR book ZIP 28670 inherits

ZIP 28670 itself is about 64 people per Census sq mi across 38 sq mi (2,451 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 28670 accounts for roughly 3.7% of the county reporting population (2,451 of 65,969).

Wilkes County leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses (mix index 2,748). ZIP 28670 has no separate FBI offense book.

Wilkes County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +4% vs 2023; property counts -11% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Wilkes 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 28670

Similar county violent rate (~183/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,451)

County detail: Wilkes 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.