ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 04096

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

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Data updated 2026-07-13

96
Property rate /100K (county): 8,984
Population (ZIP): 13
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 04096 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 04096 sits within Cumberland 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: 13 violent incidents and 96 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 04096 carries a Census-reported population of 8,984, ranking #12 of 38 ZIPs in Cumberland County, spread across 13.4 square miles (about 670 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Cumberland County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cumberland County crime page linked below.

ZIP 04096 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Cumberland County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 04096?

Within the participating-agency records for Cumberland County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 96% below and property crime is 94% 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 04096. 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.

ZIP 04096 sits near the middle of Cumberland County's ZIP population ordering (#12 of 38). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

County Property Rate /100K

ZIP Population

8,984

County Violent Rate /100K

Land Area

13.4 sq mi

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the crime rate for ZIP code 04096? ▼

ZIP 04096 (Cumberland County, ME) doesn't have its own FBI crime figure, ZIP codes aren't law-enforcement jurisdictions. The containing county reported 13 violent incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, below the national average.

What county is ZIP code 04096 in? ▼

ZIP code 04096 is located in Cumberland County, ME.

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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.

Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program County UCR via ZIP-to-county crosswalk ZIP 04096 inherits county-level FBI UCR figures for Cumberland County, ME.

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.