What is the crime rate for ZIP code 16242?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code, and for Clarion County, PA (the county containing ZIP 16242) 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 16242 in?

ZIP code 16242 is located in Clarion County, PA.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 16242

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

4,258
Population (ZIP): 0
Violent rate /100K (county): 0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 16242 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 16242 sits within Clarion 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 16242 is the largest ZIP in Clarion County by population, 4,258 residents (#3 of 22 county ZIPs), across 93.55 square miles (46/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Clarion County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Clarion County crime page linked below.

ZIP 16242 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Clarion County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 16242 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: $53,523
Median age: 44.9 years
Owner-occupied homes: 73%
Occupied homes: 1,735

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

ZIP 16242 settlement vs Clarion County

ZIP 16242 itself is about 46 people per Census sq mi across 93.6 sq mi (4,258 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 16242 accounts for roughly 11.4% of the county reporting population (4,258 of 37,241).

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 16242

Similar Census population (~4,258)

ZIP 54736, WI · 4,258 pop · Δ0
ZIP 37714, TN · 4,259 pop · Δ1
ZIP 84526, UT · 4,257 pop · Δ1
ZIP 48647, MI · 4,256 pop · Δ2

County detail: Clarion 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.