ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 18072

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

6,937
Population (ZIP)
0
Violent rate /100K (county)
0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 18072 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 18072 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 18072 carries a Census-reported population of 6,937, ranking #13 of 22 ZIPs in Northampton County, spread across 14.89 square miles (about 466 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 18072 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 18072 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
$79,798
Median age
44.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
73%
Occupied homes
2,659

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

ZIP 18072 settlement vs Northampton County

ZIP 18072 itself is about 466 people per Census sq mi across 14.9 sq mi (6,937 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 18072 accounts for roughly 2.2% of the county reporting population (6,937 of 312,951).

Northampton County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (100% of 1 offenses; mix index 10,000). ZIP 18072 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 18072

Similar county violent rate (~0/100K)

Similar Census population (~6,937)

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.