ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 97304

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

233
Property rate /100K (county)
34,148
Population (ZIP)
49
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 97304 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 97304 sits within Polk County, OR, 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: 49 violent incidents and 233 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 97304 carries a Census-reported population of 34,148, ranking #1 of 6 ZIPs in Polk County, spread across 56.82 square miles (about 601 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Polk County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Polk County crime page linked below.

ZIP 97304 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Polk County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 97304 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
$85,908
Median age
39.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
64%
Occupied homes
13,581

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 97304?

Within the participating-agency records for Polk County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 86% below and property crime is 86% 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 97304. 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.

ZIP 97304 sits near the middle of Polk County's ZIP population ordering (#1 of 6). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Polk County UCR book ZIP 97304 inherits

ZIP 97304 itself is about 601 people per Census sq mi across 56.8 sq mi (34,148 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 97304's 34,148 residents are about 39.1% of the 2024 county reporting population (87,433), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Polk County leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses (mix index 3,574). ZIP 97304 has no separate FBI offense book.

Polk County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -27% vs 2023; property counts -15% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Polk 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 97304

Similar county violent rate (~49/100K)

Similar Census population (~34,148)

County detail: Polk County · State atlas: Oregon

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.