ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 83869

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

268
Property rate /100K (county)
5,667
Population (ZIP)
69
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 83869 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 83869 sits within Kootenai 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: 69 violent incidents and 268 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 83869 carries a Census-reported population of 5,667, ranking #7 of 11 ZIPs in Kootenai County, spread across 65.83 square miles (about 86 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Kootenai County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Kootenai County crime page linked below.

ZIP 83869 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Kootenai County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 83869 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
$65,152
Median age
42.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
93%
Occupied homes
1,979

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 83869?

Within the participating-agency records for Kootenai County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 80% 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 83869. 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.

83869 is comparatively spread out at about 86 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.

Kootenai County UCR book ZIP 83869 inherits

ZIP 83869 itself is about 86 people per Census sq mi across 65.8 sq mi (5,667 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 83869 accounts for roughly 3.3% of the county reporting population (5,667 of 171,362).

Kootenai County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 577 offenses; mix index 4,814). ZIP 83869 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Kootenai County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -1% vs 2023; property counts -9% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Kootenai 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 83869

Similar county violent rate (~69/100K)

Similar Census population (~5,667)

County detail: Kootenai 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.