ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 15851
Jefferson County, Pennsylvania: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 7,112
- Population (ZIP)
- 0
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 15851 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 15851 sits within Jefferson 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 15851 is the largest ZIP in Jefferson County by population, 7,112 residents (#3 of 24 county ZIPs), across 97.04 square miles (73/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Jefferson County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Jefferson County crime page linked below.
ZIP 15851 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Jefferson County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 15851 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
- $58,613
- Median age
- 41.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 76%
- Occupied homes
- 2,773
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 15851 settlement vs Jefferson County
ZIP 15851 itself is about 73 people per Census sq mi across 97 sq mi (7,112 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 15851's 7,112 residents are about 16% of the 2024 county reporting population (44,492), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
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 15851
Similar Census population (~7,112)
- ZIP 11507, NY · 7,111 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 25702, WV · 7,110 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 92548, CA · 7,110 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 54982, WI · 7,116 pop · Δ4
County detail: Jefferson 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.