ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 87120
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)
- 65,918
- Population (ZIP)
- 100
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 87120 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 87120 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 87120 is the largest ZIP in Bernalillo County by population, 65,918 residents (#3 of 24 county ZIPs), across 57.64 square miles (1,144/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 87120 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 87120 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
- $80,704
- Median age
- 39.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 79%
- Occupied homes
- 26,258
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 87120?
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 87120. 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, 87120 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#3 of 24). Its 65,918 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 87120 inherits
ZIP 87120 itself is about 1,144 people per Census sq mi across 57.6 sq mi (65,918 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 87120 accounts for roughly 9.7% of the county reporting population (65,918 of 676,444).
Bernalillo County leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses (mix index 2,684). ZIP 87120 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 87120
Similar county violent rate (~100/100K)
- ZIP 49660, MI · 99.9/100K · Manistee County
- ZIP 29640, SC · 99.7/100K · Pickens County
- ZIP 66508, KS · 99.6/100K · Marshall County
- ZIP 47421, IN · 100/100K · Lawrence County
Similar Census population (~65,918)
- ZIP 84404, UT · 65,940 pop · Δ22
- ZIP 20878, MD · 65,954 pop · Δ36
- ZIP 30022, GA · 65,985 pop · Δ67
- ZIP 27519, NC · 66,046 pop · Δ128
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.