ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 12008

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

427
Population (ZIP)
3
Violent rate /100K (county)
11
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 12008 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 12008 sits within Schenectady County, NY, 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.

With 427 residents, ZIP 12008 is among the smaller ZIPs in Schenectady County (#12 of 12 by population), spread across 0.67 square miles (637/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Schenectady County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Schenectady County crime page linked below.

ZIP 12008 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Schenectady County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 12008 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
$135,636
Median age
27.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
100%
Occupied homes
166
Median home value
$228,800
Bachelor's degree or higher
41.3%
Poverty rate
4.4%
Unemployment rate
0.0%

ZIP 12008's median home value of $228,800 sits higher than 58% of the 1,303 NY 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 12008 settlement vs Schenectady County

ZIP 12008 itself is about 637 people per Census sq mi across 0.7 sq mi (427 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 12008 is about 0.3% of the county reporting population (427 of 158,061), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Schenectady County leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses (mix index 3,422). ZIP 12008 has no separate FBI offense book.

Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.

Read with ZIP 12008

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.