ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 87144

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

95
Property rate /100K (county)
48,815
Population (ZIP)
54
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 87144 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 87144 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 87144 is the largest ZIP in Sandoval County by population, 48,815 residents (#2 of 19 county ZIPs), across 100.39 square miles (486/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Sandoval County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Sandoval County crime page linked below.

ZIP 87144 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 87144 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
$84,303
Median age
37.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
85%
Occupied homes
17,268

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 87144?

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 87144. 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, 87144 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#2 of 19). Its 48,815 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Sandoval County UCR book ZIP 87144 inherits

ZIP 87144 itself is about 486 people per Census sq mi across 100.4 sq mi (48,815 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 87144's 48,815 residents are about 32.8% of the 2024 county reporting population (148,834), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Sandoval County leans on aggravated assault at 33% of reported offenses (mix index 2,745). ZIP 87144 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 87144

Similar county violent rate (~54/100K)

Similar Census population (~48,815)

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.