ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 60628

Cook County, Illinois: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

30
Property rate /100K (county)
61,419
Population (ZIP)
11
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 60628 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 60628 sits within Cook County, IL, 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: 11 violent incidents and 30 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 60628 is the largest ZIP in Cook County by population, 61,419 residents (#21 of 167 county ZIPs), across 10.98 square miles (5,594/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Cook County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cook County crime page linked below.

ZIP 60628 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Cook County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 60628 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
$48,601
Median age
40.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
56%
Occupied homes
23,332

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 60628?

Within the participating-agency records for Cook County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 97% below and property crime is 98% 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 60628. 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, 60628 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#21 of 167). Its 61,419 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Cook County UCR book ZIP 60628 inherits

ZIP 60628 itself is about 5,594 people per Census sq mi across 11 sq mi (61,419 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 60628 is about 1.2% of the county reporting population (61,419 of 5,275,541), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Cook County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 2,186 offenses; mix index 4,059). ZIP 60628 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Cook County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +88% vs 2023; property counts +96% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Cook 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 60628

Similar county violent rate (~11/100K)

Similar Census population (~61,419)

County detail: Cook County · State atlas: Illinois

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.