ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 08527
Ocean County, New Jersey: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 57,943
- Population (ZIP)
- 1
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 1
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 08527 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 08527 sits within Ocean 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 08527 is the largest ZIP in Ocean County by population, 57,943 residents (#3 of 29 county ZIPs), across 85.44 square miles (678/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Ocean County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Ocean County crime page linked below.
ZIP 08527 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Ocean County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 08527 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
- $108,039
- Median age
- 39.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 87%
- Occupied homes
- 20,767
- Median home value
- $440,600
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 38.9%
- Poverty rate
- 7.5%
- Unemployment rate
- 4.5%
ZIP 08527's median home value of $440,600 sits higher than 62% of the 518 NJ ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
ZIP 08527 settlement vs Ocean County
ZIP 08527 itself is about 678 people per Census sq mi across 85.4 sq mi (57,943 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 08527 accounts for roughly 9.1% of the county reporting population (57,943 of 637,229).
Ocean County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in burglary (50% of 8 offenses; mix index 4,063). ZIP 08527 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
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 08527
Similar county violent rate (~1/100K)
- ZIP 15237, PA · 0.4/100K · Allegheny County
- ZIP 41017, KY · 0.6/100K · Kenton County
- ZIP 18042, PA · 0.3/100K · Northampton County
- ZIP 17331, PA · 0.7/100K · York County
Similar Census population (~57,943)
- ZIP 85706, AZ · 57,897 pop · Δ46
- ZIP 55901, MN · 58,015 pop · Δ72
- ZIP 30114, GA · 58,021 pop · Δ78
- ZIP 92057, CA · 58,022 pop · Δ79
County detail: Ocean 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.