ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 83221
Bingham County, Idaho: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 286
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 28,822
- Population (ZIP)
- 81
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 83221 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 83221 sits within Bingham County, ID, 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: 81 violent incidents and 286 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 83221 is the largest ZIP in Bingham County by population, 28,822 residents (#1 of 9 county ZIPs), across 725.61 square miles (40/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Bingham County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Bingham County crime page linked below.
ZIP 83221 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Bingham County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 83221 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
- $69,724
- Median age
- 33.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 79%
- Occupied homes
- 9,046
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 83221?
Within the participating-agency records for Bingham County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 77% below and property crime is 83% 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 83221. 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, 83221 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 9). Its 28,822 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.
Bingham County UCR book ZIP 83221 inherits
ZIP 83221 itself is about 40 people per Census sq mi across 725.6 sq mi (28,822 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 83221's 28,822 residents are about 60.1% of the 2024 county reporting population (47,992), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Bingham County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 3,148). ZIP 83221 has no separate FBI offense book.
Bingham County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -24% vs 2023; property counts +32% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Bingham 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 83221
Similar county violent rate (~81/100K)
- ZIP 79772, TX · 81.4/100K · Reeves County
- ZIP 30116, GA · 81.4/100K · Carroll County
- ZIP 21629, MD · 81.1/100K · Caroline County
- ZIP 45769, OH · 81/100K · Meigs County
Similar Census population (~28,822)
- ZIP 60018, IL · 28,820 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 19406, PA · 28,826 pop · Δ4
- ZIP 33625, FL · 28,818 pop · Δ4
- ZIP 55904, MN · 28,816 pop · Δ6
County detail: Bingham County · State atlas: Idaho
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.