ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 15679

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

2,501
Population (ZIP)
0
Violent rate /100K (county)
0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 15679 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 15679 sits within Westmoreland 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 15679 carries a Census-reported population of 2,501, ranking #25 of 77 ZIPs in Westmoreland County, spread across 22.02 square miles (about 114 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Westmoreland County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Westmoreland County crime page linked below.

ZIP 15679 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Westmoreland County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 15679 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
$61,417
Median age
57.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
88%
Occupied homes
1,303
Median home value
$162,300
Bachelor's degree or higher
14.0%
Poverty rate
6.6%
Unemployment rate
7.8%

ZIP 15679's median home value of $162,300 sits higher than 36% of the 1,088 PA ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.

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

ZIP 15679 settlement vs Westmoreland County

ZIP 15679 itself is about 114 people per Census sq mi across 22 sq mi (2,501 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 15679 is about 0.7% of the county reporting population (2,501 of 354,663), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

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 15679

Similar Census population (~2,501)

County detail: Westmoreland 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.