ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 16678
Bedford County, Pennsylvania: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 2,429
- Population (ZIP)
- 0
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 16678 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 16678 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 16678 carries a Census-reported population of 2,429, ranking #4 of 23 ZIPs in Bedford County, spread across 48.44 square miles (about 50 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 16678 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 16678 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
- $58,214
- Median age
- 46.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 81%
- Occupied homes
- 1,034
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 16678 settlement vs Bedford County
ZIP 16678 itself is about 50 people per Census sq mi across 48.4 sq mi (2,429 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 16678 accounts for roughly 5.1% of the county reporting population (2,429 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 16678
Similar Census population (~2,429)
- ZIP 28357, NC · 2,429 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 72137, AR · 2,429 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 83850, ID · 2,429 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 99347, WA · 2,429 pop · Δ0
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.