ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 03106
Merrimack County, New Hampshire: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 14,654
- Population (ZIP)
- 1
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 1
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 03106 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 03106 sits within Merrimack County, NH, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.
ZIP 03106 is the largest ZIP in Merrimack County by population, 14,654 residents (#3 of 28 county ZIPs), across 36.02 square miles (407/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Merrimack County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Merrimack County crime page linked below.
ZIP 03106 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Merrimack County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 03106 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
- $100,711
- Median age
- 39.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 79%
- Occupied homes
- 5,076
- Median home value
- $336,800
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 38.8%
- Poverty rate
- 3.8%
- Unemployment rate
- 3.1%
ZIP 03106's median home value of $336,800 sits higher than 59% of the 226 NH ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
ZIP 03106 settlement vs Merrimack County
ZIP 03106 itself is about 407 people per Census sq mi across 36 sq mi (14,654 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 03106 accounts for roughly 9.5% of the county reporting population (14,654 of 153,808).
Merrimack County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in rape (67% of 3 offenses; mix index 5,556). ZIP 03106 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 03106
Similar county violent rate (~1/100K)
- ZIP 30354, GA · 1.3/100K · Fulton County
- ZIP 29568, SC · 1.4/100K · Horry County
- ZIP 75209, TX · 1.5/100K · Dallas County
- ZIP 10804, NY · 1.1/100K · Westchester County
Similar Census population (~14,654)
- ZIP 30103, GA · 14,654 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 45220, OH · 14,651 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 36619, AL · 14,658 pop · Δ4
- ZIP 46561, IN · 14,658 pop · Δ4
County detail: Merrimack County · State atlas: New Hampshire
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.