What is the crime rate for ZIP code 87032?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code. ZIP 87032 is located in Torrance County, NM, which reported a violent-crime rate of 160 per 100,000 residents in 2024. This is the county's rate, the closest official FBI UCR figure available for this ZIP code. That figure is based on a small reported count and should be treated as a data point, not a precise ranking.

What county is ZIP code 87032 in?

ZIP code 87032 is located in Torrance County, NM.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 87032

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,004
Property rate /100K (county): 115
Population (ZIP): 160
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 87032 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 87032 sits within Torrance 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.

Torrance County reported a violent-crime rate of 160 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 1,004 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 24 reported violent incidents across a county population of 15,045, 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.

With 115 residents, ZIP 87032 is among the smaller ZIPs in Torrance County (#7 of 8 by population), spread across 25.92 square miles (4/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Torrance County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Torrance County crime page linked below.

ZIP 87032 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Torrance County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 87032 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: 115

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

Torrance County UCR book ZIP 87032 inherits

ZIP 87032 itself is about 4 people per Census sq mi across 25.9 sq mi (115 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 87032 is about 0.8% of the county reporting population (115 of 15,045), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Torrance County leans on burglary at 34% of reported offenses (mix index 2,706). ZIP 87032 has no separate FBI offense book.

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

Torrance County offense mix (2024)

Burglary 60 offenses (34%) Larceny-Theft 51 offenses (29%) Motor Vehicle Theft 40 offenses (23%) Aggravated Assault 22 offenses (13%) Robbery 1 offenses (1%)

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 87032

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.