What is the crime rate for ZIP code 12574?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code, and for Dutchess County, NY (the county containing ZIP 12574) agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the UCR Program. The county figures shown cover only the agencies that submitted, so no meaningful crime rate can be stated for this area. Low reported counts here indicate missing reports, not an absence of crime.

What county is ZIP code 12574 in?

ZIP code 12574 is located in Dutchess County, NY.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 12574

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-09-05

293
Population (ZIP): 8
Violent rate /100K (county): 110
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 12574 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 12574 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.

With 293 residents, ZIP 12574 is among the smaller ZIPs in Dutchess County (#31 of 34 by population), spread across 0.51 square miles (575/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Dutchess County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Dutchess County crime page linked below.

ZIP 12574 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 12574 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 age: 63.7 years
Owner-occupied homes: 100%
Occupied homes: 153
Median home value: $375,700
Bachelor's degree or higher: 82.7%
Poverty rate: 0.0%
Unemployment rate: 5.2%

ZIP 12574's median home value of $375,700 sits higher than 79% of the 1,303 NY ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.

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

ZIP 12574 settlement vs Dutchess County

ZIP 12574 itself is about 575 people per Census sq mi across 0.5 sq mi (293 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 12574 is about 0.1% of the county reporting population (293 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 12574 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.

Read with ZIP 12574

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.