ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 78028
Kerr County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 268
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 39,906
- Population (ZIP)
- 84
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 78028 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 78028 sits within Kerr County, TX, 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: 84 violent incidents and 268 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 78028 carries a Census-reported population of 39,906, ranking #1 of 6 ZIPs in Kerr County, spread across 263.32 square miles (about 152 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Kerr County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Kerr County crime page linked below.
ZIP 78028 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Kerr County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 78028 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
- $64,768
- Median age
- 47.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 68%
- Occupied homes
- 16,878
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 78028?
Within the participating-agency records for Kerr County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 76% below and property crime is 84% 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 78028. 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.
78028 is comparatively spread out at about 152 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.
Kerr County UCR book ZIP 78028 inherits
ZIP 78028 itself is about 152 people per Census sq mi across 263.3 sq mi (39,906 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 78028's 39,906 residents are about 75.9% of the 2024 county reporting population (52,598), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Kerr County leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses (mix index 3,628). ZIP 78028 has no separate FBI offense book.
Kerr County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +19% vs 2023; property counts -19% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Kerr 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 78028
Similar county violent rate (~84/100K)
- ZIP 41008, KY · 83.3/100K · Carroll County
- ZIP 89431, NV · 83.2/100K · Washoe County
- ZIP 61614, IL · 84.1/100K · Peoria County
- ZIP 37043, TN · 83.2/100K · Montgomery County
Similar Census population (~39,906)
- ZIP 95050, CA · 39,905 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 49507, MI · 39,899 pop · Δ7
- ZIP 95695, CA · 39,892 pop · Δ14
- ZIP 70506, LA · 39,926 pop · Δ20
County detail: Kerr County · State atlas: Texas
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.