ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 87036

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,004
Property rate /100K (county)
1,663
Population (ZIP)
160
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 87036 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 87036 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.

ZIP 87036 carries a Census-reported population of 1,663, ranking #3 of 8 ZIPs in Torrance County, spread across 1,045.83 square miles (about 2 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Torrance County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Torrance County crime page linked below.

ZIP 87036 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 87036 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
$53,750
Median age
55.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
90%
Occupied homes
622

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

Torrance County UCR book ZIP 87036 inherits

ZIP 87036 itself is about 2 people per Census sq mi across 1,045.8 sq mi (1,663 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 87036 accounts for roughly 11.1% of the county reporting population (1,663 of 15,045).

Torrance County leans on burglary at 34% of reported offenses (mix index 2,706). ZIP 87036 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)

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 87036

Similar county violent rate (~160/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,663)

County detail: Torrance 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.