ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 97526

Josephine 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)
35,742
Population (ZIP)
107
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 97526 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 97526 sits within Josephine 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: 107 violent incidents and 233 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 97526 carries a Census-reported population of 35,742, ranking #2 of 10 ZIPs in Josephine County, spread across 140.73 square miles (about 254 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Josephine County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Josephine County crime page linked below.

ZIP 97526 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Josephine County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 97526 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
$55,214
Median age
46.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
65%
Occupied homes
14,972

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 97526?

Within the participating-agency records for Josephine County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 70% 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 97526. 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 97526 sits near the middle of Josephine County's ZIP population ordering (#2 of 10). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Josephine County UCR book ZIP 97526 inherits

ZIP 97526 itself is about 254 people per Census sq mi across 140.7 sq mi (35,742 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 97526's 35,742 residents are about 40.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (88,090), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Josephine County keeps 8 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,429); larceny-theft still leads at 32%. ZIP 97526 inherits the county book.

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

Josephine 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 97526

Similar county violent rate (~107/100K)

Similar Census population (~35,742)

County detail: Josephine 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.