ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 12553

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

27,409
Population (ZIP)
1
Violent rate /100K (county)
4
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 12553 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 12553 sits within Orange 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 12553 is the largest ZIP in Orange County by population, 27,409 residents (#4 of 46 county ZIPs), across 24.17 square miles (1,134/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Orange County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Orange County crime page linked below.

ZIP 12553 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Orange County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 12553 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
$96,088
Median age
38.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
71%
Occupied homes
10,121

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

ZIP 12553 settlement vs Orange County

ZIP 12553 itself is about 1,134 people per Census sq mi across 24.2 sq mi (27,409 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 12553 accounts for roughly 6.8% of the county reporting population (27,409 of 401,310).

Orange County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (82% of 17 offenses; mix index 7,093). ZIP 12553 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 12553

Similar county violent rate (~1/100K)

Similar Census population (~27,409)

County detail: Orange 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.