ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 80221
Adams County, Colorado: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 420
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 40,140
- Population (ZIP)
- 85
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 80221 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 80221 sits within Adams County, CO, 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: 85 violent incidents and 420 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 80221 carries a Census-reported population of 40,140, ranking #7 of 20 ZIPs in Adams County, spread across 9.08 square miles (about 4,421 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Adams County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Adams County crime page linked below.
ZIP 80221 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Adams County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 80221 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
- $80,748
- Median age
- 34.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 67%
- Occupied homes
- 14,191
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 80221?
Within the participating-agency records for Adams County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 76% below and property crime is 75% 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 80221. 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.
80221 is a densely settled part of the county at about 4,421 people per square mile. Density is not a crime predictor on its own; it only shows why a county-wide average can conceal a very different local setting inside this ZIP.
Adams County UCR book ZIP 80221 inherits
ZIP 80221 itself is about 4,421 people per Census sq mi across 9.1 sq mi (40,140 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 80221 accounts for roughly 7.7% of the county reporting population (40,140 of 519,572).
Adams County leans on larceny-theft at 42% of reported offenses (mix index 2,927). ZIP 80221 has no separate FBI offense book.
Adams County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +18% vs 2023; property counts +27% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Adams 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 80221
Similar county violent rate (~85/100K)
- ZIP 51346, IA · 84.6/100K · O'Brien County
- ZIP 28079, NC · 84.8/100K · Union County
- ZIP 30642, GA · 84.6/100K · Greene County
- ZIP 47802, IN · 84.8/100K · Vigo County
Similar Census population (~40,140)
- ZIP 77901, TX · 40,137 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 95688, CA · 40,147 pop · Δ7
- ZIP 76248, TX · 40,130 pop · Δ10
- ZIP 13501, NY · 40,152 pop · Δ12
County detail: Adams County · State atlas: Colorado
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.