ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 17948
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 4,105
- Population (ZIP)
- 1
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 17948 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 17948 sits within Schuylkill 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 17948 carries a Census-reported population of 4,105, ranking #12 of 52 ZIPs in Schuylkill County, spread across 19.18 square miles (about 214 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Schuylkill County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Schuylkill County crime page linked below.
ZIP 17948 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Schuylkill County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 17948 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
- $39,583
- Median age
- 39.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 63%
- Occupied homes
- 1,644
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 17948 settlement vs Schuylkill County
ZIP 17948 itself is about 214 people per Census sq mi across 19.2 sq mi (4,105 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 17948 accounts for roughly 2.9% of the county reporting population (4,105 of 143,049).
Schuylkill County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (100% of 1 offenses; mix index 10,000). ZIP 17948 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.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 17948
Similar county violent rate (~1/100K)
- ZIP 10921, NY · 0.7/100K · Orange County
- ZIP 08544, NJ · 0.8/100K · Mercer County
- ZIP 41063, KY · 0.6/100K · Kenton County
- ZIP 73541, OK · 0.8/100K · Comanche County
Similar Census population (~4,105)
- ZIP 14737, NY · 4,105 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 04097, ME · 4,106 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 77434, TX · 4,103 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 82637, WY · 4,107 pop · Δ2
County detail: Schuylkill 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.