ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 81036

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

622
Property rate /100K (county)
1,007
Population (ZIP)
0
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 81036 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 81036 sits within Kiowa 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.

Kiowa County reported a violent-crime rate of 0 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 622 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 0 reported violent incidents across a county population of 1,446, 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 81036 carries a Census-reported population of 1,007, ranking #1 of 4 ZIPs in Kiowa County, spread across 737.23 square miles (about 1 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Kiowa County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Kiowa County crime page linked below.

ZIP 81036 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Kiowa County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 81036 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
$49,167
Median age
46.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
76%
Occupied homes
430
Median home value
$132,800
Bachelor's degree or higher
14.4%
Poverty rate
11.8%
Unemployment rate
0.0%

ZIP 81036's median home value of $132,800 is lower than 95% of the 359 CO ZIPs with a reported value, among the most affordable in the state by this measure.

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

Kiowa County UCR book ZIP 81036 inherits

ZIP 81036 itself is about 1 people per Census sq mi across 737.2 sq mi (1,007 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 81036's 1,007 residents are about 69.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (1,446), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Kiowa County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 9 offenses; mix index 6,296). ZIP 81036 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Kiowa County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -31% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Kiowa 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 81036

Similar Census population (~1,007)

County detail: Kiowa 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.