ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 83837

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

433
Property rate /100K (county)
3,181
Population (ZIP)
243
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 83837 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 83837 sits within Shoshone County, ID, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Shoshone County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 243 violent and 433 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 83837 is the largest ZIP in Shoshone County by population, 3,181 residents (#1 of 12 county ZIPs), across 60.08 square miles (53/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Shoshone County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Shoshone County crime page linked below.

ZIP 83837 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Shoshone County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 83837 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
$36,596
Median age
38.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
60%
Occupied homes
1,259

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 83837?

Within the participating-agency records for Shoshone County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 31% below and property crime is 75% 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 83837. 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, 83837 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 12). Its 3,181 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Shoshone County UCR book ZIP 83837 inherits

ZIP 83837 itself is about 53 people per Census sq mi across 60.1 sq mi (3,181 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 83837's 3,181 residents are about 24.2% of the 2024 county reporting population (13,169), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Shoshone County leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses (mix index 3,572). ZIP 83837 has no separate FBI offense book.

Shoshone County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -3% vs 2023; property counts -5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Shoshone 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 83837

Similar county violent rate (~243/100K)

Similar Census population (~3,181)

County detail: Shoshone 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.