ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 17961

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

6,783
Population (ZIP)
1
Violent rate /100K (county)
0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 17961 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 17961 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 17961 is the largest ZIP in Schuylkill County by population, 6,783 residents (#6 of 52 county ZIPs), across 25.62 square miles (265/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Schuylkill County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Schuylkill County crime page linked below.

ZIP 17961 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 17961 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
$89,066
Median age
47.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
76%
Occupied homes
2,702

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

ZIP 17961 settlement vs Schuylkill County

ZIP 17961 itself is about 265 people per Census sq mi across 25.6 sq mi (6,783 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 17961 accounts for roughly 4.7% of the county reporting population (6,783 of 143,049).

Schuylkill County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (100% of 1 offenses; mix index 10,000). ZIP 17961 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 17961

Similar county violent rate (~1/100K)

Similar Census population (~6,783)

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.