ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 13204

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

249
Property rate /100K (county)
19,550
Population (ZIP)
44
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 13204 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 13204 sits within Onondaga 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: 44 violent incidents and 249 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 13204 is the largest ZIP in Onondaga County by population, 19,550 residents (#6 of 45 county ZIPs), across 4.26 square miles (4,589/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Onondaga County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Onondaga County crime page linked below.

ZIP 13204 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Onondaga County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 13204 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
$40,330
Median age
32.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
32%
Occupied homes
8,512

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 13204?

Within the participating-agency records for Onondaga County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 88% below and property crime is 85% 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 13204. 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.

Within the county, 13204 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#6 of 45). Its 19,550 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Onondaga County UCR book ZIP 13204 inherits

ZIP 13204 itself is about 4,589 people per Census sq mi across 4.3 sq mi (19,550 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 13204 accounts for roughly 4.1% of the county reporting population (19,550 of 476,516).

Onondaga County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 1,397 offenses; mix index 4,033). ZIP 13204 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Onondaga County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -1% vs 2023; property counts -20% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Onondaga 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 13204

Similar county violent rate (~44/100K)

Similar Census population (~19,550)

County detail: Onondaga 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.