ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 08805

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

14,173
Population (ZIP)
0
Violent rate /100K (county)
0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 08805 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 08805 sits within Somerset 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 08805 carries a Census-reported population of 14,173, ranking #7 of 27 ZIPs in Somerset County, spread across 2.94 square miles (about 4,821 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Somerset County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Somerset County crime page linked below.

ZIP 08805 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Somerset County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 08805 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
$82,200
Median age
36.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
50%
Occupied homes
5,374

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

ZIP 08805 settlement vs Somerset County

ZIP 08805 itself is about 4,821 people per Census sq mi across 2.9 sq mi (14,173 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 08805 accounts for roughly 4.1% of the county reporting population (14,173 of 345,361).

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 08805

Similar Census population (~14,173)

County detail: Somerset 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.

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.