ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 81427

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

267
Property rate /100K (county)
1,227
Population (ZIP)
82
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 81427 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 81427 sits within Ouray 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.

Ouray County reported a violent-crime rate of 82 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 267 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 4 reported violent incidents across a county population of 4,874, 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.

With 1,227 residents, ZIP 81427 is among the smaller ZIPs in Ouray County (#2 of 2 by population), spread across 74.72 square miles (16/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Ouray County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Ouray County crime page linked below.

ZIP 81427 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Ouray County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 81427 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
$71,488
Median age
50.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
75%
Occupied homes
559

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

Ouray County UCR book ZIP 81427 inherits

ZIP 81427 itself is about 16 people per Census sq mi across 74.7 sq mi (1,227 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 81427's 1,227 residents are about 25.2% of the 2024 county reporting population (4,874), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Ouray County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 17 offenses; mix index 6,125). ZIP 81427 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Ouray County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -46% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Ouray 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 81427

Similar Census population (~1,227)

County detail: Ouray 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.