ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 08759
Ocean County, New Jersey: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 33,979
- Population (ZIP)
- 1
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 1
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 08759 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 08759 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 08759 carries a Census-reported population of 33,979, ranking #6 of 29 ZIPs in Ocean County, spread across 61.34 square miles (about 554 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Ocean County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Ocean County crime page linked below.
ZIP 08759 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 08759 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
- $49,455
- Median age
- 68.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 87%
- Occupied homes
- 19,956
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 08759 settlement vs Ocean County
ZIP 08759 itself is about 554 people per Census sq mi across 61.3 sq mi (33,979 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 08759 accounts for roughly 5.3% of the county reporting population (33,979 of 637,229).
Ocean County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in burglary (50% of 8 offenses; mix index 4,063). ZIP 08759 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 08759
Similar county violent rate (~1/100K)
- ZIP 15235, PA · 0.4/100K · Allegheny County
- ZIP 41051, KY · 0.6/100K · Kenton County
- ZIP 18015, PA · 0.3/100K · Northampton County
- ZIP 17402, PA · 0.7/100K · York County
Similar Census population (~33,979)
- ZIP 11566, NY · 33,976 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 03301, NH · 33,986 pop · Δ7
- ZIP 77340, TX · 33,969 pop · Δ10
- ZIP 60901, IL · 33,968 pop · Δ11
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.