ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 12522
Dutchess County, New York: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 4,775
- Population (ZIP)
- 8
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 110
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 12522 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 12522 sits within Dutchess 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 12522 carries a Census-reported population of 4,775, ranking #15 of 34 ZIPs in Dutchess County, spread across 37.48 square miles (about 127 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Dutchess County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Dutchess County crime page linked below.
ZIP 12522 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Dutchess County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 12522 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
- $72,215
- Median age
- 41.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 68%
- Occupied homes
- 1,829
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 12522 settlement vs Dutchess County
ZIP 12522 itself is about 127 people per Census sq mi across 37.5 sq mi (4,775 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 12522 is about 1.6% of the county reporting population (4,775 of 295,911), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Dutchess County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 350 offenses; mix index 6,404). ZIP 12522 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 12522
Similar county violent rate (~8/100K)
- ZIP 62613, IL · 8.1/100K · Menard County
- ZIP 24963, WV · 8.1/100K · Monroe County
- ZIP 76259, TX · 8.2/100K · Denton County
- ZIP 79351, TX · 8/100K · Dawson County
Similar Census population (~4,775)
- ZIP 98840, WA · 4,775 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 05676, VT · 4,776 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 29918, SC · 4,776 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 30139, GA · 4,777 pop · Δ2
County detail: Dutchess 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.