ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 19605
Berks County, Pennsylvania: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 20,564
- Population (ZIP)
- 1
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 19605 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 19605 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 19605 is the largest ZIP in Berks County by population, 20,564 residents (#6 of 51 county ZIPs), across 17.59 square miles (1,169/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Berks County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Berks County crime page linked below.
ZIP 19605 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 19605 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
- $81,222
- Median age
- 40.9 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 85%
- Occupied homes
- 7,706
- Median home value
- $200,800
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 26.8%
- Poverty rate
- 6.9%
- Unemployment rate
- 6.6%
ZIP 19605's median home value of $200,800 sits higher than 55% 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 19605 settlement vs Berks County
ZIP 19605 itself is about 1,169 people per Census sq mi across 17.6 sq mi (20,564 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 19605 accounts for roughly 4.8% of the county reporting population (20,564 of 428,849).
Berks County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (100% of 4 offenses; mix index 10,000). ZIP 19605 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 19605
Similar county violent rate (~1/100K)
- ZIP 73501, OK · 0.8/100K · Comanche County
- ZIP 08550, NJ · 0.8/100K · Mercer County
- ZIP 10805, NY · 1.1/100K · Westchester County
- ZIP 10990, NY · 0.7/100K · Orange County
Similar Census population (~20,564)
- ZIP 98121, WA · 20,562 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 61073, IL · 20,567 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 32459, FL · 20,558 pop · Δ6
- ZIP 49735, MI · 20,570 pop · Δ6
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.