ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 87020

Cibola County, New Mexico: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

70
Property rate /100K (county)
10,555
Population (ZIP)
18
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 87020 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 87020 sits within Cibola County, NM. 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.

Cibola County reported a violent-crime rate of 18 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 70 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 5 reported violent incidents across a county population of 27,172, 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 87020 is the largest ZIP in Cibola County by population, 10,555 residents (#1 of 14 county ZIPs), across 901.95 square miles (12/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Cibola County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cibola County crime page linked below.

ZIP 87020 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Cibola County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 87020 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
$57,051
Median age
36.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
66%
Occupied homes
3,409

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

Cibola County UCR book ZIP 87020 inherits

ZIP 87020 itself is about 12 people per Census sq mi across 902 sq mi (10,555 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 87020's 10,555 residents are about 38.8% of the 2024 county reporting population (27,172), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Cibola County leans on motor vehicle theft at 42% of reported offenses (mix index 3,108). ZIP 87020 has no separate FBI offense book.

Cibola 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 87020

Similar county violent rate (~18/100K)

Similar Census population (~10,555)

County detail: Cibola County · State atlas: New Mexico

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.