ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 18055
Northampton County, Pennsylvania: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 11,796
- Population (ZIP)
- 0
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 18055 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 18055 sits within Northampton 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 18055 carries a Census-reported population of 11,796, ranking #11 of 22 ZIPs in Northampton County, spread across 19.98 square miles (about 590 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Northampton County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Northampton County crime page linked below.
ZIP 18055 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Northampton County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 18055 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
- $82,341
- Median age
- 48.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 79%
- Occupied homes
- 4,747
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 18055 settlement vs Northampton County
ZIP 18055 itself is about 590 people per Census sq mi across 20 sq mi (11,796 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 18055 accounts for roughly 3.8% of the county reporting population (11,796 of 312,951).
Northampton County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (100% of 1 offenses; mix index 10,000). ZIP 18055 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 18055
Similar county violent rate (~0/100K)
- ZIP 40243, KY · 0.3/100K · Jefferson County
- ZIP 63348, MO · 0.2/100K · St. Charles County
- ZIP 07456, NJ · 0.2/100K · Passaic County
- ZIP 08722, NJ · 0.5/100K · Ocean County
Similar Census population (~11,796)
- ZIP 62946, IL · 11,795 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 76354, TX · 11,794 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 10604, NY · 11,799 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 45309, OH · 11,789 pop · Δ7
County detail: Northampton 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.