What is the crime rate for ZIP code 87701?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code, and for San Miguel County, NM (the county containing ZIP 87701) agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the UCR Program. The county figures shown cover only the agencies that submitted, so no meaningful crime rate can be stated for this area. Low reported counts here indicate missing reports, not an absence of crime.

What county is ZIP code 87701 in?

ZIP code 87701 is located in San Miguel County, NM.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 87701

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

17,991
Population (ZIP): 0
Violent rate /100K (county): 0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 87701 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 87701 sits within San Miguel County, NM, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.

ZIP 87701 is the largest ZIP in San Miguel County by population, 17,991 residents (#1 of 17 county ZIPs), across 1,601.8 square miles (11/sq mi). For a full breakdown of San Miguel County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the San Miguel County crime page linked below.

ZIP 87701 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the San Miguel County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 87701 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: $45,341
Median age: 43.8 years
Owner-occupied homes: 64%
Occupied homes: 7,891

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

ZIP 87701 settlement vs San Miguel County

ZIP 87701 itself is about 11 people per Census sq mi across 1,601.8 sq mi (17,991 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 87701's 17,991 residents are about 66.1% of the 2024 county reporting population (27,201), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 87701

Similar Census population (~17,991)

ZIP 75751, TX · 17,989 pop · Δ2
ZIP 19804, DE · 17,986 pop · Δ5
ZIP 75201, TX · 17,985 pop · Δ6
ZIP 33711, FL · 17,984 pop · Δ7

County detail: San Miguel 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.