ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 14779

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

190
Property rate /100K (county)
6,899
Population (ZIP)
40
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 14779 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 14779 sits within Cattaraugus 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: 40 violent incidents and 190 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 14779 is the largest ZIP in Cattaraugus County by population, 6,899 residents (#2 of 27 county ZIPs), across 138.8 square miles (50/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Cattaraugus County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cattaraugus County crime page linked below.

ZIP 14779 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Cattaraugus County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 14779 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
$40,072
Median age
39.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
57%
Occupied homes
2,883

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 14779?

Within the participating-agency records for Cattaraugus County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 89% below and property crime is 89% 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 14779. 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, 14779 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#2 of 27). Its 6,899 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Cattaraugus County UCR book ZIP 14779 inherits

ZIP 14779 itself is about 50 people per Census sq mi across 138.8 sq mi (6,899 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 14779 accounts for roughly 9% of the county reporting population (6,899 of 77,042).

Cattaraugus County leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses (mix index 3,774). ZIP 14779 has no separate FBI offense book.

Cattaraugus County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -3% vs 2023; property counts -23% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Cattaraugus 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 14779

Similar county violent rate (~40/100K)

Similar Census population (~6,899)

County detail: Cattaraugus 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.