ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 20169

Prince William County, Virginia: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,480
Property rate /100K (county)
28,346
Population (ZIP)
256
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 20169 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 20169 sits within Prince William County, VA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Prince William County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 256 violent and 1,480 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 20169 carries a Census-reported population of 28,346, ranking #9 of 15 ZIPs in Prince William County, spread across 37.43 square miles (about 757 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Prince William County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Prince William County crime page linked below.

ZIP 20169 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Prince William County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 20169 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
$187,446
Median age
40.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
93%
Occupied homes
9,159

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

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 20169?

Within the participating-agency records for Prince William County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 27% below and property crime is 14% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 20169. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.

ZIP 20169 sits near the middle of Prince William County's ZIP population ordering (#9 of 15). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Prince William County UCR book ZIP 20169 inherits

ZIP 20169 itself is about 757 people per Census sq mi across 37.4 sq mi (28,346 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 20169 accounts for roughly 5.9% of the county reporting population (28,346 of 482,204).

Prince William County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 8,368 offenses; mix index 5,124). ZIP 20169 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Prince William County offense mix (2024)

Mix index is HHI × 10,000 on county offense-type shares. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero; still county-agency data, not a ZIP-native FBI table.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 20169

Similar county violent rate (~256/100K)

Similar Census population (~28,346)

County detail: Prince William County · State atlas: Virginia

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.