ZIP Code 04609

Is ZIP code 04609 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 04609 sits within Hancock 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.

Hancock County reported a violent-crime rate of 22 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 133 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 12 reported violent incidents across a county population of 55,478, 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.

ZIP 04609 is the largest ZIP in Hancock County by population, 5,161 residents (#3 of 40 county ZIPs), across 42.24 square miles (122/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Hancock County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Hancock County crime page linked below.

ZIP 04609 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Hancock County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.