ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 04950

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

733
Property rate /100K (county)
4,738
Population (ZIP)
73
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 04950 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 04950 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 04950 is the largest ZIP in Somerset County by population, 4,738 residents (#3 of 25 county ZIPs), across 51.88 square miles (91/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Somerset County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Somerset County crime page linked below.

ZIP 04950 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.

ZIP 04950 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
$55,839
Median age
52.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
70%
Occupied homes
2,083

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

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 04950?

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 04950. 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.

Within the county, 04950 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#3 of 25). Its 4,738 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Somerset County UCR book ZIP 04950 inherits

ZIP 04950 itself is about 91 people per Census sq mi across 51.9 sq mi (4,738 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 04950 accounts for roughly 9.4% of the county reporting population (4,738 of 50,477).

Somerset County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 407 offenses; mix index 4,560). ZIP 04950 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Somerset County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +61% vs 2023; property counts -3% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Somerset 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 04950

Similar county violent rate (~73/100K)

Similar Census population (~4,738)

County detail: Somerset 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.