ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 12303
Albany County, New York: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 29,680
- Population (ZIP)
- 3
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 16
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 12303 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 12303 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 12303 is the largest ZIP in Albany County by population, 29,680 residents (#2 of 39 county ZIPs), across 15.57 square miles (1,906/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Albany County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Albany County crime page linked below.
ZIP 12303 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 12303 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
- $77,917
- Median age
- 40.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 74%
- Occupied homes
- 11,740
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 12303 settlement vs Albany County
ZIP 12303 itself is about 1,906 people per Census sq mi across 15.6 sq mi (29,680 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 12303 accounts for roughly 9.4% of the county reporting population (29,680 of 314,848).
Albany County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 58 offenses; mix index 5,042). ZIP 12303 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 12303
Similar county violent rate (~3/100K)
- ZIP 44146, OH · 2.6/100K · Cuyahoga County
- ZIP 30088, GA · 2.6/100K · DeKalb County
- ZIP 36420, AL · 2.7/100K · Covington County
- ZIP 68506, NE · 2.8/100K · Lancaster County
Similar Census population (~29,680)
- ZIP 38801, MS · 29,680 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 70592, LA · 29,682 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 44221, OH · 29,677 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 61108, IL · 29,673 pop · Δ7
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.