ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 03451
Cheshire County, New Hampshire: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 3,965
- Population (ZIP)
- 1
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 8
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 03451 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 03451 sits within Cheshire 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 03451 carries a Census-reported population of 3,965, ranking #6 of 25 ZIPs in Cheshire County, spread across 20.52 square miles (about 193 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Cheshire County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cheshire County crime page linked below.
ZIP 03451 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Cheshire County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 03451 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
- $67,054
- Median age
- 50.9 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 86%
- Occupied homes
- 1,594
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 03451 settlement vs Cheshire County
ZIP 03451 itself is about 193 people per Census sq mi across 20.5 sq mi (3,965 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 03451 accounts for roughly 5.2% of the county reporting population (3,965 of 76,458).
Cheshire County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (86% of 7 offenses; mix index 7,551). ZIP 03451 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 03451
Similar county violent rate (~1/100K)
- ZIP 30363, GA · 1.3/100K · Fulton County
- ZIP 29581, SC · 1.4/100K · Horry County
- ZIP 75251, TX · 1.5/100K · Dallas County
- ZIP 10548, NY · 1.1/100K · Westchester County
Similar Census population (~3,965)
- ZIP 18343, PA · 3,964 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 37860, TN · 3,966 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 72556, AR · 3,964 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 17065, PA · 3,968 pop · Δ3
County detail: Cheshire 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.