ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 97403
Lane County, Oregon: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 270
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 15,303
- Population (ZIP)
- 65
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 97403 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 97403 sits within Lane 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: 65 violent incidents and 270 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 97403 carries a Census-reported population of 15,303, ranking #9 of 35 ZIPs in Lane County, spread across 4.23 square miles (about 3,618 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Lane County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Lane County crime page linked below.
ZIP 97403 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Lane County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 97403 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
- $47,021
- Median age
- 21.9 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 39%
- Occupied homes
- 4,800
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 97403?
Within the participating-agency records for Lane County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 82% below and property crime is 84% 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 97403. 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.
97403 is a densely settled part of the county at about 3,618 people per square mile. Density is not a crime predictor on its own; it only shows why a county-wide average can conceal a very different local setting inside this ZIP.
Lane County UCR book ZIP 97403 inherits
ZIP 97403 itself is about 3,618 people per Census sq mi across 4.2 sq mi (15,303 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 97403 accounts for roughly 4% of the county reporting population (15,303 of 382,971).
Lane County leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses (mix index 3,363). ZIP 97403 has no separate FBI offense book.
Lane County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -9% vs 2023; property counts -17% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Lane 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 97403
Similar county violent rate (~65/100K)
- ZIP 98282, WA · 64.5/100K · Island County
- ZIP 61727, IL · 64.4/100K · DeWitt County
- ZIP 25560, WV · 64.4/100K · Putnam County
- ZIP 78645, TX · 64.6/100K · Travis County
Similar Census population (~15,303)
- ZIP 17557, PA · 15,303 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 15012, PA · 15,301 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 07670, NJ · 15,299 pop · Δ4
- ZIP 32615, FL · 15,295 pop · Δ8
County detail: Lane 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.