ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 87114

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

289
Property rate /100K (county)
67,805
Population (ZIP)
100
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 87114 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 87114 sits within Bernalillo 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: 100 violent incidents and 289 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 87114 is the largest ZIP in Bernalillo County by population, 67,805 residents (#2 of 24 county ZIPs), across 20.94 square miles (3,238/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Bernalillo County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Bernalillo County crime page linked below.

ZIP 87114 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Bernalillo County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 87114 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
$77,743
Median age
37.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
68%
Occupied homes
26,747

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 87114?

Within the participating-agency records for Bernalillo County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 72% below and property crime is 83% 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 87114. 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.

Within the county, 87114 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#2 of 24). Its 67,805 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Bernalillo County UCR book ZIP 87114 inherits

ZIP 87114 itself is about 3,238 people per Census sq mi across 20.9 sq mi (67,805 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 87114 accounts for roughly 10% of the county reporting population (67,805 of 676,444).

Bernalillo County leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses (mix index 2,684). ZIP 87114 has no separate FBI offense book.

Bernalillo County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -13% vs 2023; property counts -3% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Bernalillo 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 87114

Similar county violent rate (~100/100K)

Similar Census population (~67,805)

County detail: Bernalillo 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.