ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 28906

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)
19,586
Population (ZIP)
226
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 28906 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 28906 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.

ZIP 28906 carries a Census-reported population of 19,586, ranking #1 of 3 ZIPs in Cherokee County, spread across 333.37 square miles (about 59 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Cherokee County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cherokee County crime page linked below.

ZIP 28906 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 28906 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
$49,426
Median age
56.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
83%
Occupied homes
8,913

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 28906?

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 28906. 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.

28906 is comparatively spread out at about 59 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.

Cherokee County UCR book ZIP 28906 inherits

ZIP 28906 itself is about 59 people per Census sq mi across 333.4 sq mi (19,586 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 28906's 19,586 residents are about 68.1% of the 2024 county reporting population (28,774), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Cherokee County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 360 offenses; mix index 4,435). ZIP 28906 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 28906

Similar county violent rate (~226/100K)

Similar Census population (~19,586)

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.