ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 88020
Hidalgo County, New Mexico: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 168
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 793
- Population (ZIP)
- 120
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 88020 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 88020 sits within Hidalgo 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.
Hidalgo County reported a violent-crime rate of 120 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 168 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 5 reported violent incidents across a county population of 4,178, 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.
ZIP 88020 carries a Census-reported population of 793, ranking #2 of 5 ZIPs in Hidalgo County, spread across 1,248.63 square miles (about 1 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Hidalgo County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Hidalgo County crime page linked below.
ZIP 88020 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Hidalgo County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 88020 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
- $63,281
- Median age
- 46.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 83%
- Occupied homes
- 298
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
Hidalgo County UCR book ZIP 88020 inherits
ZIP 88020 itself is about 1 people per Census sq mi across 1,248.6 sq mi (793 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 88020's 793 residents are about 19% of the 2024 county reporting population (4,178), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Hidalgo County keeps 5 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,083); larceny-theft still leads at 25%. ZIP 88020 inherits the county book.
Hidalgo County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -22% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Hidalgo 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.
Read with ZIP 88020
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.