ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 98843

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

412
Property rate /100K (county)
2,243
Population (ZIP)
44
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 98843 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 98843 sits within Douglas County, WA. 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.

Douglas County reported a violent-crime rate of 44 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 412 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 19 reported violent incidents across a county population of 42,938, 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 98843 carries a Census-reported population of 2,243, ranking #3 of 9 ZIPs in Douglas County, spread across 67.22 square miles (about 33 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Douglas County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Douglas County crime page linked below.

ZIP 98843 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Douglas County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 98843 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
$63,476
Median age
40.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
60%
Occupied homes
806

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

Douglas County UCR book ZIP 98843 inherits

ZIP 98843 itself is about 33 people per Census sq mi across 67.2 sq mi (2,243 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 98843 accounts for roughly 5.2% of the county reporting population (2,243 of 42,938).

Douglas County leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 3,257). ZIP 98843 has no separate FBI offense book.

Douglas County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -18% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Douglas 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 98843

Similar county violent rate (~44/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,243)

County detail: Douglas 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.