ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 87461
San Juan County, New Mexico: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 376
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 1,394
- Population (ZIP)
- 223
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 87461 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 87461 sits within San Juan County, NM, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
San Juan County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 223 violent and 376 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
ZIP 87461 carries a Census-reported population of 1,394, ranking #13 of 16 ZIPs in San Juan County, spread across 240.21 square miles (about 6 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of San Juan County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the San Juan County crime page linked below.
ZIP 87461 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from San Juan County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 87461 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
- $31,053
- Median age
- 41.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 94%
- Occupied homes
- 444
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 87461?
Within the participating-agency records for San Juan County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 37% below and property crime is 78% 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 87461. 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.
87461 is comparatively spread out at about 6 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.
San Juan County UCR book ZIP 87461 inherits
ZIP 87461 itself is about 6 people per Census sq mi across 240.2 sq mi (1,394 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 87461 is about 1.1% of the county reporting population (1,394 of 121,661), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
San Juan County leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses (mix index 2,819). ZIP 87461 has no separate FBI offense book.
San Juan County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts flat vs 2023; property counts -5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
San Juan 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 87461
Similar county violent rate (~223/100K)
- ZIP 37885, TN · 222.7/100K · Monroe County
- ZIP 36276, AL · 223.1/100K · Randolph County
- ZIP 63940, MO · 223.1/100K · Butler County
- ZIP 63349, MO · 223.3/100K · Lincoln County
Similar Census population (~1,394)
- ZIP 59487, MT · 1,394 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 63781, MO · 1,394 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 92398, CA · 1,394 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 14858, NY · 1,395 pop · Δ1
County detail: San Juan 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.