ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 97324

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

144
Property rate /100K (county)
1,273
Population (ZIP)
26
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 97324 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 97324 sits within Benton County, OR. 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.

Benton County reported a violent-crime rate of 26 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 144 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 25 reported violent incidents across a county population of 95,184, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

With 1,273 residents, ZIP 97324 is among the smaller ZIPs in Benton County (#6 of 6 by population), spread across 194.95 square miles (7/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Benton County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Benton County crime page linked below.

ZIP 97324 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Benton County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 97324 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
$62,024
Median age
55.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
61%
Occupied homes
538

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

Benton County UCR book ZIP 97324 inherits

ZIP 97324 itself is about 7 people per Census sq mi across 195 sq mi (1,273 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 97324 is about 1.3% of the county reporting population (1,273 of 95,184), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Benton County leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses (mix index 3,578). ZIP 97324 has no separate FBI offense book.

Benton County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -25% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Benton 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 97324

Similar county violent rate (~26/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,273)

County detail: Benton 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.