ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 17550
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 168
- Population (ZIP)
- 0
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 17550 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 17550 sits within Lancaster 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.
With 168 residents, ZIP 17550 is among the smaller ZIPs in Lancaster County (#47 of 53 by population), spread across 0.16 square miles (1,050/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Lancaster County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Lancaster County crime page linked below.
ZIP 17550 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Lancaster County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 17550 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 age
- 55.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 79%
- Occupied homes
- 82
- Median home value
- $161,300
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 23.4%
- Poverty rate
- 8.3%
- Unemployment rate
- 0.0%
ZIP 17550's median home value of $161,300 sits higher than 35% 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 17550 settlement vs Lancaster County
ZIP 17550 itself is about 1,050 people per Census sq mi across 0.2 sq mi (168 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 17550 is about 0% of the county reporting population (168 of 552,984), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Lancaster County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (100% of 1 offenses; mix index 10,000). ZIP 17550 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Read with ZIP 17550
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.