ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 18053

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

2,565
Population (ZIP)
0
Violent rate /100K (county)
0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 18053 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 18053 sits within Lehigh 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 18053 carries a Census-reported population of 2,565, ranking #22 of 28 ZIPs in Lehigh County, spread across 18.27 square miles (about 140 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Lehigh County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Lehigh County crime page linked below.

ZIP 18053 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Lehigh County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 18053 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
$82,859
Median age
41.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
83%
Occupied homes
967
Median home value
$265,200
Bachelor's degree or higher
27.6%
Poverty rate
2.8%
Unemployment rate
2.5%

ZIP 18053's median home value of $265,200 sits higher than 77% 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 18053 settlement vs Lehigh County

ZIP 18053 itself is about 140 people per Census sq mi across 18.3 sq mi (2,565 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 18053 is about 0.7% of the county reporting population (2,565 of 374,557), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

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 18053

Similar Census population (~2,565)

County detail: Lehigh 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.