ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 28773

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

626
Property rate /100K (county)
2,949
Population (ZIP)
202
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 28773 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 28773 sits within Polk County, NC, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Polk County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 202 violent and 626 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

With 2,949 residents, ZIP 28773 is among the smaller ZIPs in Polk County (#4 of 4 by population), spread across 48.3 square miles (61/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Polk County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Polk County crime page linked below.

ZIP 28773 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Polk County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 28773 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
$66,298
Median age
54.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
86%
Occupied homes
1,173

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 28773?

Within the participating-agency records for Polk County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 43% 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 28773. 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, 28773 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#4 of 4). 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.

Polk County UCR book ZIP 28773 inherits

ZIP 28773 itself is about 61 people per Census sq mi across 48.3 sq mi (2,949 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 28773's 2,949 residents are about 15.3% of the 2024 county reporting population (19,328), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Polk County leans on larceny-theft at 38% of reported offenses (mix index 2,778). ZIP 28773 has no separate FBI offense book.

Polk County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +44% vs 2023; property counts -20% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Polk 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 28773

Similar county violent rate (~202/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,949)

County detail: Polk 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.