ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 97603

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

679
Property rate /100K (county)
32,376
Population (ZIP)
281
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 97603 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 97603 sits within Klamath 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.

Klamath County reported a violent-crime rate of 281 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 679 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 97603 is the largest ZIP in Klamath County by population, 32,376 residents (#1 of 17 county ZIPs), across 340.62 square miles (95/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Klamath County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Klamath County crime page linked below.

ZIP 97603 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Klamath County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 97603 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
$62,328
Median age
38.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
67%
Occupied homes
12,725

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 97603?

Within the participating-agency records for Klamath County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 20% below and property crime is 60% 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 97603. 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, 97603 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 17). Its 32,376 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Klamath County UCR book ZIP 97603 inherits

ZIP 97603 itself is about 95 people per Census sq mi across 340.6 sq mi (32,376 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 97603's 32,376 residents are about 46.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (69,413), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Klamath County leans on larceny-theft at 36% of reported offenses (mix index 2,589). ZIP 97603 has no separate FBI offense book.

Klamath County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +25% vs 2023; property counts +3% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Klamath 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 97603

Similar county violent rate (~281/100K)

Similar Census population (~32,376)

County detail: Klamath 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.