ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 04912

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

Data updated 2026-07-13

733
Property rate /100K (county): 783
Population (ZIP): 73
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 04912 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 04912 sits within Somerset 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: 73 violent incidents and 733 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 04912 carries a Census-reported population of 783, ranking #18 of 25 ZIPs in Somerset County, spread across 56.52 square miles (about 14 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Somerset County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Somerset County crime page linked below.

ZIP 04912 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Somerset County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 04912?

Within the participating-agency records for Somerset County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 79% below and property crime is 57% 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 04912. 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.

04912 is comparatively spread out at about 14 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

County Property Rate /100K

733

ZIP Population

783

County Violent Rate /100K

Land Area

56.52 sq mi

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the crime rate for ZIP code 04912? ▼

ZIP 04912 (Somerset County, ME) doesn't have its own FBI crime figure, ZIP codes aren't law-enforcement jurisdictions. The containing county reported 73 violent incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, below the national average.

What county is ZIP code 04912 in? ▼

ZIP code 04912 is located in Somerset County, ME.

Other ZIP Codes in Somerset County

Explore PlainCrime

Somerset County Crime

Full crime breakdown by category

Maine Crime

All counties & cities in state

Crime Rankings

Safest & most dangerous cities

Compare Cities

Side-by-side crime comparison

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 04912 inherits county-level FBI UCR figures for Somerset 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.