ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 04073

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

86
Property rate /100K (county)
17,389
Population (ZIP)
18
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 04073 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 04073 sits within York County, ME, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 18 violent incidents and 86 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 04073 is the largest ZIP in York County by population, 17,389 residents (#3 of 36 county ZIPs), across 37.74 square miles (461/sq mi). For a full breakdown of York County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the York County crime page linked below.

ZIP 04073 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from York County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 04073 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
$70,605
Median age
39.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
66%
Occupied homes
7,013

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 04073?

Within the participating-agency records for York County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 95% below and property crime is 95% 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 04073. 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.

Within the county, 04073 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#3 of 36). Its 17,389 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

York County UCR book ZIP 04073 inherits

ZIP 04073 itself is about 461 people per Census sq mi across 37.7 sq mi (17,389 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 04073 accounts for roughly 8.2% of the county reporting population (17,389 of 211,972).

York County leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses (mix index 3,654). ZIP 04073 has no separate FBI offense book.

York County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +23% vs 2023; property counts +1% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

York 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 04073

Similar county violent rate (~18/100K)

Similar Census population (~17,389)

County detail: York County · State atlas: Maine

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.