ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 12581

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

2,041
Population (ZIP)
8
Violent rate /100K (county)
110
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 12581 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 12581 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 12581 carries a Census-reported population of 2,041, ranking #25 of 34 ZIPs in Dutchess County, spread across 38.99 square miles (about 52 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 12581 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 12581 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
$86,184
Median age
44.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
73%
Occupied homes
866

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

ZIP 12581 settlement vs Dutchess County

ZIP 12581 itself is about 52 people per Census sq mi across 39 sq mi (2,041 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 12581 is about 0.7% of the county reporting population (2,041 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 12581 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 12581

Similar county violent rate (~8/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,041)

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.