ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 28723

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,102
Property rate /100K (county)
10,880
Population (ZIP)
241
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 28723 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 28723 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 28723 carries a Census-reported population of 10,880, ranking #2 of 9 ZIPs in Jackson County, spread across 111.95 square miles (about 97 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 28723 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 28723 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
$43,649
Median age
22.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
40%
Occupied homes
3,620

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 28723?

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 28723. 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.

28723 is comparatively spread out at about 97 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 28723 inherits

ZIP 28723 itself is about 97 people per Census sq mi across 112 sq mi (10,880 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 28723's 10,880 residents are about 25.2% of the 2024 county reporting population (43,109), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Jackson County leans on burglary at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 3,205). ZIP 28723 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.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 28723

Similar county violent rate (~241/100K)

Similar Census population (~10,880)

County detail: Jackson 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.