ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 03301
Merrimack County, New Hampshire: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 33,986
- Population (ZIP)
- 1
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 1
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 03301 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 03301 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 03301 is the largest ZIP in Merrimack County by population, 33,986 residents (#1 of 28 county ZIPs), across 49.23 square miles (690/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 03301 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 03301 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
- $78,394
- Median age
- 40.3 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 56%
- Occupied homes
- 13,628
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 03301 settlement vs Merrimack County
ZIP 03301 itself is about 690 people per Census sq mi across 49.2 sq mi (33,986 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 03301's 33,986 residents are about 22.1% of the 2024 county reporting population (153,808), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Merrimack County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in rape (67% of 3 offenses; mix index 5,556). ZIP 03301 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 03301
Similar county violent rate (~1/100K)
- ZIP 30342, GA · 1.3/100K · Fulton County
- ZIP 29577, SC · 1.4/100K · Horry County
- ZIP 75214, TX · 1.5/100K · Dallas County
- ZIP 10562, NY · 1.1/100K · Westchester County
Similar Census population (~33,986)
- ZIP 08759, NJ · 33,979 pop · Δ7
- ZIP 11566, NY · 33,976 pop · Δ10
- ZIP 77340, TX · 33,969 pop · Δ17
- ZIP 31324, GA · 34,004 pop · Δ18
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.