ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 81601

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

276
Property rate /100K (county)
16,547
Population (ZIP)
149
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 81601 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 81601 sits within Garfield 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: 149 violent incidents and 276 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 81601 carries a Census-reported population of 16,547, ranking #1 of 6 ZIPs in Garfield County, spread across 367.63 square miles (about 45 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Garfield County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Garfield County crime page linked below.

ZIP 81601 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Garfield County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 81601 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
$97,896
Median age
39.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
63%
Occupied homes
6,084

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 81601?

Within the participating-agency records for Garfield County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 58% below and property crime is 84% 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 81601. 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.

81601 is comparatively spread out at about 45 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

Garfield County UCR book ZIP 81601 inherits

ZIP 81601 itself is about 45 people per Census sq mi across 367.6 sq mi (16,547 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 81601's 16,547 residents are about 26.8% of the 2024 county reporting population (61,685), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Garfield County leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses (mix index 2,866). ZIP 81601 has no separate FBI offense book.

Garfield County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +33% vs 2023; property counts -16% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Garfield 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 81601

Similar county violent rate (~149/100K)

Similar Census population (~16,547)

County detail: Garfield 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.