ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 58703

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

70
Property rate /100K (county)
22,780
Population (ZIP)
49
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 58703 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 58703 sits within Ward County, ND, 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: 49 violent incidents and 70 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 58703 is the largest ZIP in Ward County by population, 22,780 residents (#2 of 14 county ZIPs), across 156.16 square miles (146/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Ward County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Ward County crime page linked below.

ZIP 58703 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Ward County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 58703 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
$80,639
Median age
32.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
62%
Occupied homes
9,609

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 58703?

Within the participating-agency records for Ward County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 86% below and property crime is 96% 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 58703. 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, 58703 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#2 of 14). Its 22,780 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Ward County UCR book ZIP 58703 inherits

ZIP 58703 itself is about 146 people per Census sq mi across 156.2 sq mi (22,780 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 58703's 22,780 residents are about 32.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (69,919), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Ward County keeps 6 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,414); larceny-theft still leads at 34%. ZIP 58703 inherits the county book.

Ward County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -15% vs 2023; property counts -32% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Ward 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 58703

Similar county violent rate (~49/100K)

Similar Census population (~22,780)

County detail: Ward County · State atlas: North Dakota

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.