ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 97741
Jefferson County, Oregon: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 269
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 13,390
- Population (ZIP)
- 29
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 97741 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 97741 sits within Jefferson 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.
Jefferson County reported a violent-crime rate of 29 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 269 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 7 reported violent incidents across a county population of 24,502, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.
ZIP 97741 carries a Census-reported population of 13,390, ranking #1 of 4 ZIPs in Jefferson County, spread across 363.88 square miles (about 37 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Jefferson County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Jefferson County crime page linked below.
ZIP 97741 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Jefferson County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 97741 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
- $63,474
- Median age
- 39.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 63%
- Occupied homes
- 4,539
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
Jefferson County UCR book ZIP 97741 inherits
ZIP 97741 itself is about 37 people per Census sq mi across 363.9 sq mi (13,390 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 97741's 13,390 residents are about 54.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (24,502), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Jefferson County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 73 offenses; mix index 4,044). ZIP 97741 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Jefferson County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -26% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Jefferson 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 97741
Similar county violent rate (~29/100K)
- ZIP 44820, OH · 28.6/100K · Crawford County
- ZIP 74029, OK · 28.6/100K · Washington County
- ZIP 42211, KY · 28.4/100K · Trigg County
- ZIP 56482, MN · 28.4/100K · Wadena County
Similar Census population (~13,390)
- ZIP 36078, AL · 13,398 pop · Δ8
- ZIP 18938, PA · 13,380 pop · Δ10
- ZIP 08069, NJ · 13,402 pop · Δ12
- ZIP 33868, FL · 13,404 pop · Δ14
County detail: Jefferson 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.