What is the crime rate for ZIP code 15521?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code, and for Bedford County, PA (the county containing ZIP 15521) 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 15521 in?

ZIP code 15521 is located in Bedford County, PA.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 15521

Bedford County, Pennsylvania: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,917
Population (ZIP): 0
Violent rate /100K (county): 0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 15521 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 15521 sits within Bedford County, PA, 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 15521 carries a Census-reported population of 1,917, ranking #9 of 23 ZIPs in Bedford County, spread across 37.39 square miles (about 51 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Bedford County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Bedford County crime page linked below.

ZIP 15521 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Bedford County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 15521 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: $54,792
Median age: 46.3 years
Owner-occupied homes: 88%
Occupied homes: 709

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

ZIP 15521 settlement vs Bedford County

ZIP 15521 itself is about 51 people per Census sq mi across 37.4 sq mi (1,917 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 15521 accounts for roughly 4% of the county reporting population (1,917 of 47,577).

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 15521

Similar Census population (~1,917)

ZIP 24631, VA · 1,917 pop · Δ0
ZIP 35135, AL · 1,917 pop · Δ0
ZIP 29437, SC · 1,916 pop · Δ1
ZIP 48865, MI · 1,918 pop · Δ1

County detail: Bedford County · State atlas: Pennsylvania

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.