ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 07042

Essex County, New Jersey: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

26,945
Population (ZIP)
6
Violent rate /100K (county)
11
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 07042 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 07042 sits within Essex County, NJ, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.

ZIP 07042 carries a Census-reported population of 26,945, ranking #17 of 31 ZIPs in Essex County, spread across 3.77 square miles (about 7,147 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Essex County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Essex County crime page linked below.

ZIP 07042 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Essex County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 07042 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
$130,329
Median age
40.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
51%
Occupied homes
10,925

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

ZIP 07042 settlement vs Essex County

ZIP 07042 itself is about 7,147 people per Census sq mi across 3.8 sq mi (26,945 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 07042 accounts for roughly 3.1% of the county reporting population (26,945 of 863,728).

Essex County leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 2,668). ZIP 07042 has no separate FBI offense book.

Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 07042

Similar county violent rate (~6/100K)

Similar Census population (~26,945)

County detail: Essex County · State atlas: New Jersey

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.