What is the crime rate for ZIP code 12961?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code, and for Essex County, NY (the county containing ZIP 12961) 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 12961 in?

ZIP code 12961 is located in Essex County, NY.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 12961

Essex 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

97
Population (ZIP): 0
Violent rate /100K (county): 5
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 12961 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 12961 sits within Essex 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 97 residents, ZIP 12961 is among the smaller ZIPs in Essex County (#28 of 29 by population), spread across 15.11 square miles (6/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Essex County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Essex County crime page linked below.

ZIP 12961 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Essex County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 12961 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: 62.4 years
Owner-occupied homes: 100%
Occupied homes: 86
Bachelor's degree or higher: 78.4%
Poverty rate: 0.0%
Unemployment rate: 0.0%

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

ZIP 12961 settlement vs Essex County

ZIP 12961 itself is about 6 people per Census sq mi across 15.1 sq mi (97 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 12961 is about 0.3% of the county reporting population (97 of 37,381), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Essex County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (50% of 2 offenses; mix index 7,500). ZIP 12961 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 12961

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.