ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 28806

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

451
Property rate /100K (county)
44,522
Population (ZIP)
65
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 28806 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 28806 sits within Buncombe 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: 65 violent incidents and 451 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 28806 is the largest ZIP in Buncombe County by population, 44,522 residents (#1 of 16 county ZIPs), across 38.14 square miles (1,167/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Buncombe County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Buncombe County crime page linked below.

ZIP 28806 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Buncombe County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 28806 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
$59,875
Median age
36.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
57%
Occupied homes
16,838

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 28806?

Within the participating-agency records for Buncombe County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 82% below and property crime is 74% 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 28806. 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, 28806 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 16). Its 44,522 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Buncombe County UCR book ZIP 28806 inherits

ZIP 28806 itself is about 1,167 people per Census sq mi across 38.1 sq mi (44,522 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 28806's 44,522 residents are about 16.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (269,452), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Buncombe County leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses (mix index 3,385). ZIP 28806 has no separate FBI offense book.

Buncombe County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -1% vs 2023; property counts +7% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Buncombe 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 28806

Similar county violent rate (~65/100K)

Similar Census population (~44,522)

County detail: Buncombe 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.