ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 08223
Cape May County, New Jersey: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 4,230
- Population (ZIP)
- 0
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 08223 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 08223 sits within Cape May 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 08223 carries a Census-reported population of 4,230, ranking #8 of 16 ZIPs in Cape May County, spread across 12.95 square miles (about 327 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Cape May County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cape May County crime page linked below.
ZIP 08223 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Cape May County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 08223 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
- $98,125
- Median age
- 46.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 87%
- Occupied homes
- 1,893
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 08223 settlement vs Cape May County
ZIP 08223 itself is about 327 people per Census sq mi across 13 sq mi (4,230 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 08223 accounts for roughly 4.4% of the county reporting population (4,230 of 95,263).
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 08223
Similar Census population (~4,230)
- ZIP 60936, IL · 4,230 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 64844, MO · 4,230 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 24127, VA · 4,228 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 24574, VA · 4,228 pop · Δ2
County detail: Cape May 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.