ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 98337

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

881
Property rate /100K (county)
8,785
Population (ZIP)
177
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 98337 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 98337 sits within Kitsap County, WA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Kitsap County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 177 violent and 881 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 98337 carries a Census-reported population of 8,785, ranking #10 of 20 ZIPs in Kitsap County, spread across 1.48 square miles (about 5,936 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Kitsap County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Kitsap County crime page linked below.

ZIP 98337 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Kitsap County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 98337 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
$69,188
Median age
33.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
51%
Occupied homes
3,492

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 98337?

Within the participating-agency records for Kitsap County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 50% below and property crime is 49% 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 98337. 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.

98337 is a densely settled part of the county at about 5,936 people per square mile. Density is not a crime predictor on its own; it only shows why a county-wide average can conceal a very different local setting inside this ZIP.

Kitsap County UCR book ZIP 98337 inherits

ZIP 98337 itself is about 5,936 people per Census sq mi across 1.5 sq mi (8,785 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 98337 accounts for roughly 3.2% of the county reporting population (8,785 of 275,611).

Kitsap County leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses (mix index 3,838). ZIP 98337 has no separate FBI offense book.

Kitsap County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -8% vs 2023; property counts -13% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Kitsap 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 98337

Similar county violent rate (~177/100K)

Similar Census population (~8,785)

County detail: Kitsap 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.