ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 18431

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

12,807
Population (ZIP)
0
Violent rate /100K (county)
0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 18431 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 18431 sits within Wayne 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 18431 is the largest ZIP in Wayne County by population, 12,807 residents (#2 of 21 county ZIPs), across 134.75 square miles (95/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Wayne County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Wayne County crime page linked below.

ZIP 18431 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Wayne County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 18431 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
$53,613
Median age
46.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
72%
Occupied homes
5,396
Median home value
$196,600
Bachelor's degree or higher
21.6%
Poverty rate
12.5%
Unemployment rate
5.7%

ZIP 18431's median home value of $196,600 sits higher than 53% 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 18431 settlement vs Wayne County

ZIP 18431 itself is about 95 people per Census sq mi across 134.8 sq mi (12,807 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 18431's 12,807 residents are about 25% of the 2024 county reporting population (51,155), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

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 18431

Similar Census population (~12,807)

County detail: Wayne 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.