ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 12206
Albany County, New York: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 14,793
- Population (ZIP)
- 3
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 16
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 12206 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 12206 sits within Albany 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.
ZIP 12206 carries a Census-reported population of 14,793, ranking #9 of 39 ZIPs in Albany County, spread across 2.07 square miles (about 7,146 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Albany County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Albany County crime page linked below.
ZIP 12206 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Albany County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 12206 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
- $33,136
- Median age
- 34.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 22%
- Occupied homes
- 6,394
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 12206 settlement vs Albany County
ZIP 12206 itself is about 7,146 people per Census sq mi across 2.1 sq mi (14,793 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 12206 accounts for roughly 4.7% of the county reporting population (14,793 of 314,848).
Albany County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 58 offenses; mix index 5,042). ZIP 12206 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 12206
Similar county violent rate (~3/100K)
- ZIP 44103, OH · 2.6/100K · Cuyahoga County
- ZIP 30317, GA · 2.6/100K · DeKalb County
- ZIP 36420, AL · 2.7/100K · Covington County
- ZIP 68512, NE · 2.8/100K · Lancaster County
Similar Census population (~14,793)
- ZIP 94805, CA · 14,790 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 20613, MD · 14,800 pop · Δ7
- ZIP 16508, PA · 14,801 pop · Δ8
- ZIP 82930, UT · 14,804 pop · Δ11
County detail: Albany County · State atlas: New York
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.