ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 97457
Douglas County, Oregon: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 501
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 9,632
- Population (ZIP)
- 90
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 97457 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 97457 sits within Douglas 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: 90 violent incidents and 501 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 97457 carries a Census-reported population of 9,632, ranking #4 of 26 ZIPs in Douglas County, spread across 164.04 square miles (about 59 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Douglas County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Douglas County crime page linked below.
ZIP 97457 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Douglas County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 97457 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
- $54,254
- Median age
- 49.9 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 71%
- Occupied homes
- 4,079
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 97457?
Within the participating-agency records for Douglas County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 74% below and property crime is 71% 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 97457. 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.
97457 is comparatively spread out at about 59 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.
Douglas County UCR book ZIP 97457 inherits
ZIP 97457 itself is about 59 people per Census sq mi across 164 sq mi (9,632 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 97457 accounts for roughly 8.7% of the county reporting population (9,632 of 111,201).
Douglas County leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses (mix index 2,960). ZIP 97457 has no separate FBI offense book.
Douglas County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -15% vs 2023; property counts -9% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Douglas 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 97457
Similar county violent rate (~90/100K)
- ZIP 37645, TN · 89.9/100K · Hawkins County
- ZIP 28168, NC · 89.9/100K · Lincoln County
- ZIP 74848, OK · 89.8/100K · Hughes County
- ZIP 93926, CA · 89.7/100K · Monterey County
Similar Census population (~9,632)
- ZIP 79756, TX · 9,632 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 04412, ME · 9,633 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 20712, MD · 9,630 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 92136, CA · 9,630 pop · Δ2
County detail: Douglas 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.