ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 87043
Sandoval County, New Mexico: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 95
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 4,066
- Population (ZIP)
- 54
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 87043 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 87043 sits within Sandoval County, NM, 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: 54 violent incidents and 95 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 87043 carries a Census-reported population of 4,066, ranking #8 of 19 ZIPs in Sandoval County, spread across 107.66 square miles (about 38 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Sandoval County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Sandoval County crime page linked below.
ZIP 87043 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Sandoval County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 87043 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
- $105,216
- Median age
- 62.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 93%
- Occupied homes
- 2,015
- Median home value
- $470,300
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 60.1%
- Poverty rate
- 3.0%
- Unemployment rate
- 3.0%
ZIP 87043's median home value of $470,300 is higher than 96% of the 169 NM ZIPs with a reported value, one of the priciest in the state by this measure.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 87043?
Within the participating-agency records for Sandoval County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 85% below and property crime is 94% 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 87043. 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.
87043 is comparatively spread out at about 38 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.
Sandoval County UCR book ZIP 87043 inherits
ZIP 87043 itself is about 38 people per Census sq mi across 107.7 sq mi (4,066 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 87043 accounts for roughly 2.7% of the county reporting population (4,066 of 148,834).
Sandoval County leans on aggravated assault at 33% of reported offenses (mix index 2,745). ZIP 87043 has no separate FBI offense book.
Sandoval 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 87043
Similar county violent rate (~54/100K)
- ZIP 75558, TX · 54.4/100K · Titus County
- ZIP 27283, NC · 54.5/100K · Guilford County
- ZIP 56277, MN · 54.3/100K · Renville County
- ZIP 43044, OH · 54.2/100K · Champaign County
Similar Census population (~4,066)
- ZIP 35546, AL · 4,065 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 66743, KS · 4,067 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 72024, AR · 4,068 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 95321, CA · 4,068 pop · Δ2
County detail: Sandoval 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.