ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 16823

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

29,145
Population (ZIP)
0
Violent rate /100K (county)
0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 16823 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 16823 sits within Centre 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 16823 is the largest ZIP in Centre County by population, 29,145 residents (#2 of 31 county ZIPs), across 124.3 square miles (234/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Centre County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Centre County crime page linked below.

ZIP 16823 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Centre County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 16823 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
$77,087
Median age
45.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
73%
Occupied homes
11,155

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

ZIP 16823 settlement vs Centre County

ZIP 16823 itself is about 234 people per Census sq mi across 124.3 sq mi (29,145 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 16823's 29,145 residents are about 18.4% of the 2024 county reporting population (158,172), 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 16823

Similar Census population (~29,145)

County detail: Centre 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.