ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 81643
Mesa County, Colorado: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 569
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 468
- Population (ZIP)
- 106
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 81643 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 81643 sits within Mesa 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: 106 violent incidents and 569 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
With 468 residents, ZIP 81643 is among the smaller ZIPs in Mesa County (#15 of 17 by population), spread across 154.34 square miles (3/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Mesa County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Mesa County crime page linked below.
ZIP 81643 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Mesa County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 81643 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
- $84,659
- Median age
- 56.0 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 93%
- Occupied homes
- 239
- Median home value
- $489,100
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 40.1%
- Poverty rate
- 3.4%
- Unemployment rate
- 0.0%
ZIP 81643's median home value of $489,100 sits higher than 69% 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).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 81643?
Within the participating-agency records for Mesa County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 70% below and property crime is 67% 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 81643. 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.
Within the county, 81643 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#15 of 17). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.
Mesa County UCR book ZIP 81643 inherits
ZIP 81643 itself is about 3 people per Census sq mi across 154.3 sq mi (468 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 81643 is about 0.3% of the county reporting population (468 of 155,703), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Mesa County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 1,051 offenses; mix index 4,175). ZIP 81643 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Mesa County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +9% vs 2023; property counts -6% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Mesa 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 81643
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.