ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 28683

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

604
Property rate /100K (county)
1,359
Population (ZIP)
109
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 28683 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 28683 sits within Surry 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: 109 violent incidents and 604 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

With 1,359 residents, ZIP 28683 is among the smaller ZIPs in Surry County (#8 of 9 by population), spread across 34.55 square miles (39/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Surry County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Surry County crime page linked below.

ZIP 28683 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Surry County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 28683 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
$43,771
Median age
40.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
71%
Occupied homes
576

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 28683?

Within the participating-agency records for Surry County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 69% below and property crime is 65% 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 28683. 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, 28683 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#8 of 9). 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.

Surry County UCR book ZIP 28683 inherits

ZIP 28683 itself is about 39 people per Census sq mi across 34.6 sq mi (1,359 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 28683 is about 1.9% of the county reporting population (1,359 of 71,359), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Surry County leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses (mix index 2,797). ZIP 28683 has no separate FBI offense book.

Surry County 2024 vs 2022: violent counts -10% vs 2022; property counts -18% vs 2022. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Surry 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 28683

Similar county violent rate (~109/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,359)

County detail: Surry 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.