ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 14215
Erie County, New York: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 42,368
- Population (ZIP)
- 5
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 59
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 14215 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 14215 sits within Erie 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 14215 is the largest ZIP in Erie County by population, 42,368 residents (#3 of 68 county ZIPs), across 4.76 square miles (8,901/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Erie County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Erie County crime page linked below.
ZIP 14215 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Erie County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 14215 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
- $41,196
- Median age
- 32.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 47%
- Occupied homes
- 17,139
- Median home value
- $93,100
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 19.3%
- Poverty rate
- 30.4%
- Unemployment rate
- 9.0%
ZIP 14215's median home value of $93,100 is lower than 96% of the 1,303 NY ZIPs with a reported value, among the most affordable in the state by this measure.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
ZIP 14215 settlement vs Erie County
ZIP 14215 itself is about 8,901 people per Census sq mi across 4.8 sq mi (42,368 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 14215 accounts for roughly 4.4% of the county reporting population (42,368 of 954,236).
Erie County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 605 offenses; mix index 5,706). ZIP 14215 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 14215
Similar county violent rate (~5/100K)
- ZIP 54701, WI · 4.7/100K · Eau Claire County
- ZIP 30126, GA · 4.7/100K · Cobb County
- ZIP 41858, KY · 4.6/100K · Letcher County
- ZIP 43351, OH · 4.6/100K · Wyandot County
Similar Census population (~42,368)
- ZIP 95926, CA · 42,362 pop · Δ6
- ZIP 30605, GA · 42,360 pop · Δ8
- ZIP 78216, TX · 42,379 pop · Δ11
- ZIP 58201, ND · 42,353 pop · Δ15
County detail: Erie 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.