ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 80526

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

198
Property rate /100K (county)
44,478
Population (ZIP)
49
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 80526 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 80526 sits within Larimer 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: 49 violent incidents and 198 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 80526 carries a Census-reported population of 44,478, ranking #3 of 18 ZIPs in Larimer County, spread across 31.97 square miles (about 1,391 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Larimer County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Larimer County crime page linked below.

ZIP 80526 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Larimer County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 80526 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
$80,265
Median age
32.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
55%
Occupied homes
19,108

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 80526?

Within the participating-agency records for Larimer County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 86% below and property crime is 88% 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 80526. 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.

ZIP 80526 sits near the middle of Larimer County's ZIP population ordering (#3 of 18). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Larimer County UCR book ZIP 80526 inherits

ZIP 80526 itself is about 1,391 people per Census sq mi across 32 sq mi (44,478 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 80526 accounts for roughly 12.4% of the county reporting population (44,478 of 359,066).

Larimer County leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses (mix index 3,772). ZIP 80526 has no separate FBI offense book.

Larimer County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -17% vs 2023; property counts -23% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Larimer 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 80526

Similar county violent rate (~49/100K)

Similar Census population (~44,478)

County detail: Larimer 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.