ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 12306

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

27,735
Population (ZIP)
3
Violent rate /100K (county)
11
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 12306 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 12306 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.

ZIP 12306 carries a Census-reported population of 27,735, ranking #3 of 12 ZIPs in Schenectady County, spread across 43.9 square miles (about 632 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Schenectady County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Schenectady County crime page linked below.

ZIP 12306 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 12306 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
$80,207
Median age
39.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
71%
Occupied homes
11,109

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

ZIP 12306 settlement vs Schenectady County

ZIP 12306 itself is about 632 people per Census sq mi across 43.9 sq mi (27,735 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 12306's 27,735 residents are about 17.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (158,061), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Schenectady County leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses (mix index 3,422). ZIP 12306 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.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 12306

Similar county violent rate (~3/100K)

Similar Census population (~27,735)

County detail: Schenectady 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.