ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 05860

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

142
Property rate /100K (county)
2,848
Population (ZIP)
15
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 05860 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 05860 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 05860 is the largest ZIP in Orleans County by population, 2,848 residents (#2 of 22 county ZIPs), across 76.63 square miles (37/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Orleans County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Orleans County crime page linked below.

ZIP 05860 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.

ZIP 05860 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
$59,851
Median age
40.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
77%
Occupied homes
1,129

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

Orleans County UCR book ZIP 05860 inherits

ZIP 05860 itself is about 37 people per Census sq mi across 76.6 sq mi (2,848 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 05860 accounts for roughly 10.4% of the county reporting population (2,848 of 27,393).

Orleans County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 43 offenses; mix index 5,522). ZIP 05860 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Orleans County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -32% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Orleans 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 05860

Similar county violent rate (~15/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,848)

County detail: Orleans County · State atlas: Vermont

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.