ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 19540
Berks County, Pennsylvania: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 11,863
- Population (ZIP)
- 1
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 19540 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 19540 sits within Berks 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 19540 carries a Census-reported population of 11,863, ranking #14 of 51 ZIPs in Berks County, spread across 35.21 square miles (about 337 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Berks County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Berks County crime page linked below.
ZIP 19540 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Berks County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 19540 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
- $96,300
- Median age
- 42.3 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 84%
- Occupied homes
- 4,385
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 19540 settlement vs Berks County
ZIP 19540 itself is about 337 people per Census sq mi across 35.2 sq mi (11,863 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 19540 accounts for roughly 2.8% of the county reporting population (11,863 of 428,849).
Berks County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (100% of 4 offenses; mix index 10,000). ZIP 19540 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 19540
Similar county violent rate (~1/100K)
- ZIP 73503, OK · 0.8/100K · Comanche County
- ZIP 08609, NJ · 0.8/100K · Mercer County
- ZIP 10604, NY · 1.1/100K · Westchester County
- ZIP 10918, NY · 0.7/100K · Orange County
Similar Census population (~11,863)
- ZIP 68112, NE · 11,863 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 28462, NC · 11,862 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 46613, IN · 11,864 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 56031, MN · 11,861 pop · Δ2
County detail: Berks 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.