What is the crime rate for ZIP code 04853?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code. ZIP 04853 is located in Knox County, ME, which reported a violent-crime rate of 20 per 100,000 residents in 2024. This is the county's rate, the closest official FBI UCR figure available for this ZIP code. That figure is based on a small reported count and should be treated as a data point, not a precise ranking.

What county is ZIP code 04853 in?

ZIP code 04853 is located in Knox County, ME.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 04853

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

374
Property rate /100K (county): 448
Population (ZIP): 20
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 04853 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 04853 sits within Knox 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.

Knox County reported a violent-crime rate of 20 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 374 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 8 reported violent incidents across a county population of 40,607, 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 04853 carries a Census-reported population of 448, ranking #16 of 19 ZIPs in Knox County, spread across 11.37 square miles (about 39 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Knox County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Knox County crime page linked below.

ZIP 04853 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Knox County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 04853 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: $89,688
Median age: 44.5 years
Owner-occupied homes: 77%
Occupied homes: 184

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

Knox County UCR book ZIP 04853 inherits

ZIP 04853 itself is about 39 people per Census sq mi across 11.4 sq mi (448 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 04853 is about 1.1% of the county reporting population (448 of 40,607), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Knox County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 160 offenses; mix index 6,019). ZIP 04853 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Knox County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +26% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Knox County offense mix (2024)

Larceny-Theft 122 offenses (77%) Burglary 20 offenses (13%) Motor Vehicle Theft 10 offenses (6%) Aggravated Assault 4 offenses (3%) Robbery 2 offenses (1%)

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.

Read with ZIP 04853

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.