ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 81131
Saguache County, Colorado: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 691
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 998
- Population (ZIP)
- 126
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 81131 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 81131 sits within Saguache 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.
Saguache County reported a violent-crime rate of 126 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 691 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 8 reported violent incidents across a county population of 6,368, 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 81131 carries a Census-reported population of 998, ranking #3 of 6 ZIPs in Saguache County, spread across 373.02 square miles (about 3 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Saguache County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Saguache County crime page linked below.
ZIP 81131 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Saguache County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 81131 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
- $53,152
- Median age
- 65.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 77%
- Occupied homes
- 594
- Median home value
- $287,500
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 44.2%
- Poverty rate
- 23.4%
- Unemployment rate
- 9.9%
ZIP 81131's median home value of $287,500 sits higher than 27% 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).
Saguache County UCR book ZIP 81131 inherits
ZIP 81131 itself is about 3 people per Census sq mi across 373 sq mi (998 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 81131's 998 residents are about 15.7% of the 2024 county reporting population (6,368), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Saguache County leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses (mix index 3,780). ZIP 81131 has no separate FBI offense book.
Saguache County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -8% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Saguache 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 81131
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.