ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 12850
Saratoga County, New York: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 423
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 2,729
- Population (ZIP)
- 32
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 12850 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 12850 sits within Saratoga County, NY, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 32 violent incidents and 423 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 12850 carries a Census-reported population of 2,729, ranking #16 of 22 ZIPs in Saratoga County, spread across 40.72 square miles (about 67 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Saratoga County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Saratoga County crime page linked below.
ZIP 12850 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Saratoga County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 12850 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
- $95,434
- Median age
- 47.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 87%
- Occupied homes
- 1,041
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 12850?
Within the participating-agency records for Saratoga County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 91% below and property crime is 75% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 12850. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.
12850 is comparatively spread out at about 67 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.
Saratoga County UCR book ZIP 12850 inherits
ZIP 12850 itself is about 67 people per Census sq mi across 40.7 sq mi (2,729 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 12850 is about 1.2% of the county reporting population (2,729 of 235,509), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Saratoga County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (86% of 1,071 offenses; mix index 7,379). ZIP 12850 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Saratoga County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -25% vs 2023; property counts -25% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Saratoga County offense mix (2024)
Mix index is HHI × 10,000 on county offense-type shares. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero; still county-agency data, not a ZIP-native FBI table.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 12850
Similar county violent rate (~32/100K)
- ZIP 57039, SD · 32.2/100K · Lincoln County
- ZIP 82839, WY · 32.3/100K · Sheridan County
- ZIP 31016, GA · 32.2/100K · Monroe County
- ZIP 30512, GA · 32.5/100K · Union County
Similar Census population (~2,729)
- ZIP 28533, NC · 2,729 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 37882, TN · 2,729 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 62869, IL · 2,729 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 76252, TX · 2,729 pop · Δ0
County detail: Saratoga 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.