ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 88044

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

504
Property rate /100K (county)
2,499
Population (ZIP)
154
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 88044 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 88044 sits within Dona Ana 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: 154 violent incidents and 504 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 88044 carries a Census-reported population of 2,499, ranking #12 of 23 ZIPs in Dona Ana County, spread across 594.34 square miles (about 4 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Dona Ana County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Dona Ana County crime page linked below.

ZIP 88044 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Dona Ana County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 88044 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
$54,485
Median age
38.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
83%
Occupied homes
899

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 88044?

Within the participating-agency records for Dona Ana County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 56% below and property crime is 71% 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 88044. 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.

88044 is comparatively spread out at about 4 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.

Dona Ana County UCR book ZIP 88044 inherits

ZIP 88044 itself is about 4 people per Census sq mi across 594.3 sq mi (2,499 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 88044 is about 1.1% of the county reporting population (2,499 of 219,561), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Dona Ana County leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 2,824). ZIP 88044 has no separate FBI offense book.

Dona Ana County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +23% vs 2023; property counts +9% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Dona Ana 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 88044

Similar county violent rate (~154/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,499)

County detail: Dona Ana 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.