ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 14568
Wayne County, New York: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 280
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 6,349
- Population (ZIP)
- 42
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 14568 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 14568 sits within Wayne 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: 42 violent incidents and 280 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 14568 carries a Census-reported population of 6,349, ranking #7 of 18 ZIPs in Wayne County, spread across 24.47 square miles (about 259 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Wayne County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Wayne County crime page linked below.
ZIP 14568 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Wayne County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 14568 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
- $100,491
- Median age
- 45.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 95%
- Occupied homes
- 2,541
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 14568?
Within the participating-agency records for Wayne County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 88% below and property crime is 84% 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 14568. 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.
ZIP 14568 sits near the middle of Wayne County's ZIP population ordering (#7 of 18). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Wayne County UCR book ZIP 14568 inherits
ZIP 14568 itself is about 259 people per Census sq mi across 24.5 sq mi (6,349 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 14568 accounts for roughly 7% of the county reporting population (6,349 of 91,283).
Wayne County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 294 offenses; mix index 4,731). ZIP 14568 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Wayne County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -40% vs 2023; property counts -19% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Wayne 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 14568
Similar county violent rate (~42/100K)
- ZIP 45732, OH · 41.6/100K · Athens County
- ZIP 56573, MN · 41.6/100K · Otter Tail County
- ZIP 79323, TX · 41.7/100K · Gaines County
- ZIP 66027, KS · 41.5/100K · Leavenworth County
Similar Census population (~6,349)
- ZIP 73047, OK · 6,349 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 40143, KY · 6,350 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 76633, TX · 6,348 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 23103, VA · 6,351 pop · Δ2
County detail: Wayne 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.