What is the crime rate for ZIP code 87824?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code. ZIP 87824 is located in Catron County, NM, which reported a violent-crime rate of 140 per 100,000 residents in 2024. This is the county's rate, the closest official FBI UCR figure available for this ZIP code. That figure is based on a small reported count and should be treated as a data point, not a precise ranking.

What county is ZIP code 87824 in?

ZIP code 87824 is located in Catron County, NM.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 87824

Catron 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

419
Property rate /100K (county): 130
Population (ZIP): 140
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 87824 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 87824 sits within Catron County, NM. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Catron County reported a violent-crime rate of 140 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 419 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 5 reported violent incidents across a county population of 3,579, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

With 130 residents, ZIP 87824 is among the smaller ZIPs in Catron County (#7 of 7 by population), spread across 140.19 square miles (1/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Catron County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Catron County crime page linked below.

ZIP 87824 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Catron County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 87824 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 age: 75.8 years
Owner-occupied homes: 100%
Occupied homes: 97

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

Catron County UCR book ZIP 87824 inherits

ZIP 87824 itself is about 1 people per Census sq mi across 140.2 sq mi (130 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 87824 accounts for roughly 3.6% of the county reporting population (130 of 3,579).

Catron County leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses (mix index 3,475). ZIP 87824 has no separate FBI offense book.

Catron County offense mix (2024)

Larceny-Theft 10 offenses (48%) Aggravated Assault 5 offenses (24%) Motor Vehicle Theft 3 offenses (14%) Burglary 2 offenses (10%) Arson 1 offenses (5%)

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.

Read with ZIP 87824

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.