ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 20190

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,425
Property rate /100K (county)
21,121
Population (ZIP)
94
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 20190 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 20190 sits within Fairfax County, VA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 94 violent incidents and 1,425 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 20190 carries a Census-reported population of 21,121, ranking #29 of 43 ZIPs in Fairfax County, spread across 4.36 square miles (about 4,844 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Fairfax County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Fairfax County crime page linked below.

ZIP 20190 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Fairfax County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 20190 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
$120,337
Median age
40.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
48%
Occupied homes
10,725

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 20190?

Within the participating-agency records for Fairfax County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 73% below and property crime is 17% 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 20190. 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.

20190 is a densely settled part of the county at about 4,844 people per square mile. Density is not a crime predictor on its own; it only shows why a county-wide average can conceal a very different local setting inside this ZIP.

Fairfax County UCR book ZIP 20190 inherits

ZIP 20190 itself is about 4,844 people per Census sq mi across 4.4 sq mi (21,121 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 20190 is about 1.8% of the county reporting population (21,121 of 1,150,309), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Fairfax County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (84% of 17,465 offenses; mix index 7,135). ZIP 20190 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Fairfax 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 20190

Similar county violent rate (~94/100K)

Similar Census population (~21,121)

County detail: Fairfax 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.