ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 89048

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)
25,091
Population (ZIP)
287
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 89048 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 89048 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 89048 is the largest ZIP in Nye County by population, 25,091 residents (#1 of 10 county ZIPs), across 85.95 square miles (292/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Nye County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Nye County crime page linked below.

ZIP 89048 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 89048 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
$52,690
Median age
50.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
72%
Occupied homes
10,189

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 89048?

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 89048. 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.

Within the county, 89048 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 10). Its 25,091 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Nye County UCR book ZIP 89048 inherits

ZIP 89048 itself is about 292 people per Census sq mi across 86 sq mi (25,091 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 89048's 25,091 residents are about 48.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (51,591), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Nye County leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 3,109). ZIP 89048 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 89048

Similar county violent rate (~287/100K)

Similar Census population (~25,091)

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.