ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 04253

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

118
Property rate /100K (county)
1,873
Population (ZIP)
23
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 04253 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 04253 sits within Androscoggin County, ME. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Androscoggin County reported a violent-crime rate of 23 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 118 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 25 reported violent incidents across a county population of 111,139, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

With 1,873 residents, ZIP 04253 is among the smaller ZIPs in Androscoggin County (#14 of 14 by population), spread across 37.62 square miles (50/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Androscoggin County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Androscoggin County crime page linked below.

ZIP 04253 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Androscoggin County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 04253 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
$72,935
Median age
47.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
98%
Occupied homes
798

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

Androscoggin County UCR book ZIP 04253 inherits

ZIP 04253 itself is about 50 people per Census sq mi across 37.6 sq mi (1,873 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 04253 is about 1.7% of the county reporting population (1,873 of 111,139), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Androscoggin County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 156 offenses; mix index 4,785). ZIP 04253 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Androscoggin County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -13% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Androscoggin 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 04253

Similar county violent rate (~23/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,873)

County detail: Androscoggin 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.