ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 83243
Oneida County, Idaho: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 657
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 14
- Population (ZIP)
- 416
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 83243 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 83243 sits within Oneida County, ID, a county whose reported crime runs above the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Oneida County's reported crime sits somewhat above the national average: 657 violent and 416 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
With 14 residents, ZIP 83243 is among the smaller ZIPs in Oneida County (#2 of 2 by population), spread across 169.67 square miles. For a full breakdown of Oneida County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Oneida County crime page linked below.
ZIP 83243 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Oneida County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 83243 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.
- Owner-occupied homes
- 100%
- Occupied homes
- 14
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 0.0%
- Poverty rate
- 0.0%
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 83243?
Participating agencies give Oneida County a split reported profile: violent crime is 87% above the U.S. benchmark while property crime is 76% below it. A single "high" or "low" label would hide that difference; the submissions neither establish complete county coverage nor identify conditions within ZIP 83243. 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, 83243 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#2 of 2). 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.
Oneida County UCR book ZIP 83243 inherits
ZIP 83243 itself is about 0 people per Census sq mi across 169.7 sq mi (14 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 83243 is about 0.3% of the county reporting population (14 of 4,564), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Oneida County leans on aggravated assault at 49% of reported offenses (mix index 3,528). ZIP 83243 has no separate FBI offense book.
Oneida County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +200% vs 2023; property counts -21% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Oneida 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 83243
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.