ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 28905

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,025
Property rate /100K (county)
3,379
Population (ZIP)
226
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 28905 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 28905 sits within Cherokee County, NC, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Cherokee County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 226 violent and 1,025 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

With 3,379 residents, ZIP 28905 is among the smaller ZIPs in Cherokee County (#3 of 3 by population), spread across 45.18 square miles (75/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Cherokee County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cherokee County crime page linked below.

ZIP 28905 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Cherokee County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 28905 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
$51,908
Median age
42.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
80%
Occupied homes
1,237

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 28905?

Within the participating-agency records for Cherokee County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 36% below and property crime is 40% 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 28905. 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, 28905 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#3 of 3). 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.

Cherokee County UCR book ZIP 28905 inherits

ZIP 28905 itself is about 75 people per Census sq mi across 45.2 sq mi (3,379 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 28905 accounts for roughly 11.7% of the county reporting population (3,379 of 28,774).

Cherokee County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 360 offenses; mix index 4,435). ZIP 28905 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Cherokee County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -7% vs 2023; property counts -43% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Cherokee 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 28905

Similar county violent rate (~226/100K)

Similar Census population (~3,379)

County detail: Cherokee 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.