ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 34228
Sarasota County, Florida: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 683
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 7,479
- Population (ZIP)
- 80
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 34228 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 34228 sits within Sarasota County, FL, 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: 80 violent incidents and 683 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
With 7,479 residents, ZIP 34228 is among the smaller ZIPs in Sarasota County (#23 of 24 by population), spread across 4.08 square miles (1,833/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Sarasota County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Sarasota County crime page linked below.
ZIP 34228 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Sarasota County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 34228 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
- $141,250
- Median age
- 71.9 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 94%
- Occupied homes
- 4,171
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 34228?
Within the participating-agency records for Sarasota County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 77% below and property crime is 60% 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 34228. 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, 34228 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#23 of 24). 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.
Sarasota County UCR book ZIP 34228 inherits
ZIP 34228 itself is about 1,833 people per Census sq mi across 4.1 sq mi (7,479 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 34228 is about 1.7% of the county reporting population (7,479 of 434,006), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Sarasota County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 3,311 offenses; mix index 5,040). ZIP 34228 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Sarasota County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -4% vs 2023; property counts -1% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Sarasota 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 34228
Similar county violent rate (~80/100K)
- ZIP 67110, KS · 80.4/100K · Sumner County
- ZIP 45628, OH · 80.4/100K · Ross County
- ZIP 24319, VA · 80.5/100K · Smyth County
- ZIP 75686, TX · 80.2/100K · Camp County
Similar Census population (~7,479)
- ZIP 13340, NY · 7,479 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 90401, CA · 7,480 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 26164, WV · 7,481 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 27041, NC · 7,475 pop · Δ4
County detail: Sarasota County · State atlas: Florida
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.