ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 12590

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

36,816
Population (ZIP)
8
Violent rate /100K (county)
110
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 12590 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 12590 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 12590 is the largest ZIP in Dutchess County by population, 36,816 residents (#3 of 34 county ZIPs), across 34.82 square miles (1,057/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 12590 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 12590 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
$102,212
Median age
45.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
69%
Occupied homes
14,527

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

ZIP 12590 settlement vs Dutchess County

ZIP 12590 itself is about 1,057 people per Census sq mi across 34.8 sq mi (36,816 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 12590 accounts for roughly 12.4% of the county reporting population (36,816 of 295,911).

Dutchess County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 350 offenses; mix index 6,404). ZIP 12590 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 12590

Similar county violent rate (~8/100K)

Similar Census population (~36,816)

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.