ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 97346

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

478
Property rate /100K (county)
1,031
Population (ZIP)
41
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 97346 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 97346 sits within Marion 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: 41 violent incidents and 478 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

With 1,031 residents, ZIP 97346 is among the smaller ZIPs in Marion County (#23 of 26 by population), spread across 43.95 square miles (23/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Marion County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Marion County crime page linked below.

ZIP 97346 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Marion County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 97346 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
$91,944
Median age
53.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
89%
Occupied homes
402

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 97346?

Within the participating-agency records for Marion County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 88% below and property crime is 72% 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 97346. 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, 97346 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#23 of 26). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.

Marion County UCR book ZIP 97346 inherits

ZIP 97346 itself is about 23 people per Census sq mi across 44 sq mi (1,031 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 97346 is about 0.3% of the county reporting population (1,031 of 345,920), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Marion County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 1,794 offenses; mix index 4,906). ZIP 97346 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Marion County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -7% vs 2023; property counts -7% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Marion 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 97346

Similar county violent rate (~41/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,031)

County detail: Marion 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.