ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 28707
Jackson County, North Carolina: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 1,102
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 564
- Population (ZIP)
- 241
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 28707 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 28707 sits within Jackson County, NC, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Jackson County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 241 violent and 1,102 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
ZIP 28707 carries a Census-reported population of 564, ranking #7 of 9 ZIPs in Jackson County, spread across 11.13 square miles (about 51 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Jackson County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Jackson County crime page linked below.
ZIP 28707 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Jackson County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 28707 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
- $47,847
- Median age
- 55.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 76%
- Occupied homes
- 245
- Median home value
- $177,500
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 31.3%
- Poverty rate
- 5.5%
- Unemployment rate
- 0.0%
ZIP 28707's median home value of $177,500 sits higher than 44% of the 600 NC ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 28707?
Within the participating-agency records for Jackson County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 32% below and property crime is 36% 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 28707. 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.
28707 is comparatively spread out at about 51 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.
Jackson County UCR book ZIP 28707 inherits
ZIP 28707 itself is about 51 people per Census sq mi across 11.1 sq mi (564 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 28707 is about 1.3% of the county reporting population (564 of 43,109), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Jackson County leans on burglary at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 3,205). ZIP 28707 has no separate FBI offense book.
Jackson County 2024 vs 2022: violent counts +42% vs 2022; property counts +52% vs 2022. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Jackson 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.
Read with ZIP 28707
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.