What is the crime rate for ZIP code 18229?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code, and for Carbon County, PA (the county containing ZIP 18229) agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the UCR Program. The county figures shown cover only the agencies that submitted, so no meaningful crime rate can be stated for this area. Low reported counts here indicate missing reports, not an absence of crime.

What county is ZIP code 18229 in?

ZIP code 18229 is located in Carbon County, PA.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 18229

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

9,049
Population (ZIP): 0
Violent rate /100K (county): 0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 18229 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 18229 sits within Carbon 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 18229 carries a Census-reported population of 9,049, ranking #3 of 16 ZIPs in Carbon County, spread across 55.29 square miles (about 164 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Carbon County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Carbon County crime page linked below.

ZIP 18229 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Carbon County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 18229 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: $66,367
Median age: 48.5 years
Owner-occupied homes: 86%
Occupied homes: 3,726

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

ZIP 18229 settlement vs Carbon County

ZIP 18229 itself is about 164 people per Census sq mi across 55.3 sq mi (9,049 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 18229 accounts for roughly 14% of the county reporting population (9,049 of 64,749).

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 18229

Similar Census population (~9,049)

ZIP 95946, CA · 9,049 pop · Δ0
ZIP 56716, MN · 9,048 pop · Δ1
ZIP 08406, NJ · 9,046 pop · Δ3
ZIP 42743, KY · 9,043 pop · Δ6

County detail: Carbon 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.