What is the crime rate for ZIP code 17842?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code, and for Snyder County, PA (the county containing ZIP 17842) 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 17842 in?

ZIP code 17842 is located in Snyder County, PA.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 17842

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

8,174
Population (ZIP): 0
Violent rate /100K (county): 0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 17842 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 17842 sits within Snyder 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 17842 carries a Census-reported population of 8,174, ranking #2 of 12 ZIPs in Snyder County, spread across 79.37 square miles (about 103 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Snyder County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Snyder County crime page linked below.

ZIP 17842 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Snyder County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 17842 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: $60,338
Median age: 44.4 years
Owner-occupied homes: 77%
Occupied homes: 3,282

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

ZIP 17842 settlement vs Snyder County

ZIP 17842 itself is about 103 people per Census sq mi across 79.4 sq mi (8,174 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 17842's 8,174 residents are about 20.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (39,736), 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 17842

Similar Census population (~8,174)

ZIP 30646, GA · 8,173 pop · Δ1
ZIP 04473, ME · 8,171 pop · Δ3
ZIP 10579, NY · 8,171 pop · Δ3
ZIP 39530, MS · 8,170 pop · Δ4

County detail: Snyder 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.