ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 82009
Laramie County, Wyoming: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 267
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 34,835
- Population (ZIP)
- 53
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 82009 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 82009 sits within Laramie County, WY, 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: 53 violent incidents and 267 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 82009 carries a Census-reported population of 34,835, ranking #2 of 12 ZIPs in Laramie County, spread across 1,277.77 square miles (about 27 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Laramie County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Laramie County crime page linked below.
ZIP 82009 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Laramie County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 82009 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
- $98,599
- Median age
- 45.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 83%
- Occupied homes
- 14,100
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 82009?
Within the participating-agency records for Laramie County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 85% 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 82009. 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.
82009 is comparatively spread out at about 27 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.
Laramie County UCR book ZIP 82009 inherits
ZIP 82009 itself is about 27 people per Census sq mi across 1,277.8 sq mi (34,835 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 82009's 34,835 residents are about 34.7% of the 2024 county reporting population (100,512), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Laramie County leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses (mix index 3,830). ZIP 82009 has no separate FBI offense book.
Laramie County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +89% vs 2023; property counts -11% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Laramie 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 82009
Similar county violent rate (~53/100K)
- ZIP 78229, TX · 52.8/100K · Bexar County
- ZIP 68048, NE · 52.6/100K · Cass County
- ZIP 48867, MI · 52.9/100K · Shiawassee County
- ZIP 54755, WI · 52.6/100K · Buffalo County
Similar Census population (~34,835)
- ZIP 75701, TX · 34,822 pop · Δ13
- ZIP 91340, CA · 34,822 pop · Δ13
- ZIP 80228, CO · 34,813 pop · Δ22
- ZIP 76021, TX · 34,858 pop · Δ23
County detail: Laramie County · State atlas: Wyoming
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.