ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 98258
Snohomish County, Washington: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 392
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 50,582
- Population (ZIP)
- 53
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 98258 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 98258 sits within Snohomish County, WA, 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: 53 violent incidents and 392 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 98258 is the largest ZIP in Snohomish County by population, 50,582 residents (#4 of 27 county ZIPs), across 37.06 square miles (1,365/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Snohomish County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Snohomish County crime page linked below.
ZIP 98258 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Snohomish County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 98258 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
- $113,684
- Median age
- 35.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 79%
- Occupied homes
- 17,134
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 98258?
Within the participating-agency records for Snohomish County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 85% below and property crime is 77% 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 98258. 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, 98258 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#4 of 27). Its 50,582 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.
Snohomish County UCR book ZIP 98258 inherits
ZIP 98258 itself is about 1,365 people per Census sq mi across 37.1 sq mi (50,582 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 98258 accounts for roughly 6.1% of the county reporting population (50,582 of 827,957).
Snohomish County leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 3,134). ZIP 98258 has no separate FBI offense book.
Snohomish County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -7% vs 2023; property counts -11% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Snohomish 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 98258
Similar county violent rate (~53/100K)
- ZIP 21601, MD · 53.3/100K · Talbot County
- ZIP 94558, CA · 53.6/100K · Napa County
- ZIP 79339, TX · 53.7/100K · Lamb County
- ZIP 26301, WV · 53.1/100K · Harrison County
Similar Census population (~50,582)
- ZIP 60120, IL · 50,589 pop · Δ7
- ZIP 76131, TX · 50,572 pop · Δ10
- ZIP 63031, MO · 50,568 pop · Δ14
- ZIP 08081, NJ · 50,604 pop · Δ22
County detail: Snohomish County · State atlas: Washington
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.