ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 80428

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

169
Property rate /100K (county)
512
Population (ZIP)
73
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 80428 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 80428 sits within Routt County, CO. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Routt County reported a violent-crime rate of 73 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 169 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 18 reported violent incidents across a county population of 24,829, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

ZIP 80428 carries a Census-reported population of 512, ranking #4 of 9 ZIPs in Routt County, spread across 204.01 square miles (about 3 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Routt County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Routt County crime page linked below.

ZIP 80428 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Routt County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 80428 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
31.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
82%
Occupied homes
187
Median home value
$677,300
Bachelor's degree or higher
28.9%
Poverty rate
38.9%
Unemployment rate
0.0%

ZIP 80428's median home value of $677,300 sits higher than 89% of the 359 CO ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).

Routt County UCR book ZIP 80428 inherits

ZIP 80428 itself is about 3 people per Census sq mi across 204 sq mi (512 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 80428 accounts for roughly 2.1% of the county reporting population (512 of 24,829).

Routt County leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses (mix index 3,056). ZIP 80428 has no separate FBI offense book.

Routt County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -34% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Routt 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.

Read with ZIP 80428

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.