ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 80310
Boulder County, Colorado: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 230
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 7,597
- Population (ZIP)
- 26
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 80310 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 80310 sits within Boulder 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: 26 violent incidents and 230 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 80310 carries a Census-reported population of 7,597, ranking #10 of 18 ZIPs in Boulder County, spread across 0.55 square miles (about 13,813 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Boulder County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Boulder County crime page linked below.
ZIP 80310 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Boulder County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 80310 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 age
- 19.3 years
- Occupied homes
- 0
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 80310?
Within the participating-agency records for Boulder County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 93% below and property crime is 87% 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 80310. 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.
80310 is a densely settled part of the county at about 13,813 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.
Boulder County UCR book ZIP 80310 inherits
ZIP 80310 itself is about 13,813 people per Census sq mi across 0.6 sq mi (7,597 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 80310 accounts for roughly 2.3% of the county reporting population (7,597 of 330,758).
Boulder County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 845 offenses; mix index 4,161). ZIP 80310 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Boulder County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -19% vs 2023; property counts +4% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Boulder 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 80310
Similar county violent rate (~26/100K)
- ZIP 40046, KY · 25.7/100K · Spencer County
- ZIP 47106, IN · 25.6/100K · Clark County
- ZIP 45065, OH · 25.6/100K · Warren County
- ZIP 42518, KY · 25.6/100K · Wayne County
Similar Census population (~7,597)
- ZIP 29449, SC · 7,598 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 28761, NC · 7,595 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 37030, TN · 7,595 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 34242, FL · 7,602 pop · Δ5
County detail: Boulder 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.