ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 82240

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

168
Property rate /100K (county)
9,752
Population (ZIP)
16
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 82240 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 82240 sits within Goshen County, WY. 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.

Goshen County reported a violent-crime rate of 16 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 168 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 2 reported violent incidents across a county population of 12,498, 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 82240 is the largest ZIP in Goshen County by population, 9,752 residents (#1 of 9 county ZIPs), across 664.74 square miles (15/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Goshen County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Goshen County crime page linked below.

ZIP 82240 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Goshen County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 82240 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
$63,319
Median age
44.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
74%
Occupied homes
3,857

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

Goshen County UCR book ZIP 82240 inherits

ZIP 82240 itself is about 15 people per Census sq mi across 664.7 sq mi (9,752 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 82240's 9,752 residents are about 78% of the 2024 county reporting population (12,498), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Goshen County leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses (mix index 3,459). ZIP 82240 has no separate FBI offense book.

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

Goshen 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 82240

Similar county violent rate (~16/100K)

Similar Census population (~9,752)

County detail: Goshen 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.