ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 08247
Cape May County, New Jersey: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 977
- Population (ZIP)
- 0
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 08247 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 08247 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 08247 carries a Census-reported population of 977, ranking #12 of 16 ZIPs in Cape May County, spread across 5.23 square miles (about 187 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 08247 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 08247 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
- $136,250
- Median age
- 66.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 87%
- Occupied homes
- 532
- Median home value
- $1,622,300
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 67.4%
- Poverty rate
- 5.8%
- Unemployment rate
- 5.2%
ZIP 08247's median home value of $1,622,300 is higher than 100% of the 518 NJ ZIPs with a reported value, one of the priciest in the state by this measure.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
ZIP 08247 settlement vs Cape May County
ZIP 08247 itself is about 187 people per Census sq mi across 5.2 sq mi (977 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 08247 is about 1% of the county reporting population (977 of 95,263), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Read with ZIP 08247
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.