ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 89020

Nye County, Nevada: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,175
Property rate /100K (county)
1,608
Population (ZIP)
287
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 89020 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 89020 sits within Nye County, NV. 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.

Nye County reported a violent-crime rate of 287 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 1,175 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 89020 carries a Census-reported population of 1,608, ranking #6 of 10 ZIPs in Nye County, spread across 215.22 square miles (about 7 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Nye County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Nye County crime page linked below.

ZIP 89020 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Nye County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 89020 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
$34,635
Median age
56.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
61%
Occupied homes
667

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 89020?

Within the participating-agency records for Nye County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 18% below and property crime is 31% 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 89020. 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.

89020 is comparatively spread out at about 7 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.

Nye County UCR book ZIP 89020 inherits

ZIP 89020 itself is about 7 people per Census sq mi across 215.2 sq mi (1,608 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 89020 accounts for roughly 3.1% of the county reporting population (1,608 of 51,591).

Nye County leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 3,109). ZIP 89020 has no separate FBI offense book.

Nye County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +6% vs 2023; property counts -24% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Nye 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 89020

Similar county violent rate (~287/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,608)

County detail: Nye County · State atlas: Nevada

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.