ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 89801

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

220
Property rate /100K (county)
26,023
Population (ZIP)
106
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 89801 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 89801 sits within Elko County, NV, 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: 106 violent incidents and 220 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 89801 is the largest ZIP in Elko County by population, 26,023 residents (#1 of 13 county ZIPs), across 1,212.65 square miles (21/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Elko County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Elko County crime page linked below.

ZIP 89801 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Elko County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 89801 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
$87,718
Median age
33.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
63%
Occupied homes
9,742
Median home value
$270,200
Bachelor's degree or higher
15.4%
Poverty rate
10.2%
Unemployment rate
5.3%

ZIP 89801's median home value of $270,200 sits higher than 42% of the 66 NV ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.

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

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 89801?

Within the participating-agency records for Elko County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 70% below and property crime is 87% 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 89801. 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, 89801 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 13). Its 26,023 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Elko County UCR book ZIP 89801 inherits

ZIP 89801 itself is about 21 people per Census sq mi across 1,212.7 sq mi (26,023 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 89801's 26,023 residents are about 48.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (53,702), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Elko County keeps 7 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,389); larceny-theft still leads at 35%. ZIP 89801 inherits the county book.

Elko County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +4% vs 2023; property counts -20% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Elko 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 89801

Similar county violent rate (~106/100K)

Similar Census population (~26,023)

County detail: Elko 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.