ZIP Code 05820

Is ZIP code 05820 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 05820 sits within Orleans County, VT. 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.

Orleans County reported a violent-crime rate of 15 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 142 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 4 reported violent incidents across a county population of 27,393, 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 05820 carries a Census-reported population of 395, ranking #18 of 22 ZIPs in Orleans County, spread across 13.41 square miles (about 29 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Orleans County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Orleans County crime page linked below.

ZIP 05820 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Orleans County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.