ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 20194

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)
12,576
Population (ZIP)
94
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 20194 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 20194 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.

With 12,576 residents, ZIP 20194 is among the smaller ZIPs in Fairfax County (#39 of 43 by population), spread across 3.12 square miles (4,031/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Fairfax County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Fairfax County crime page linked below.

ZIP 20194 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 20194 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
$161,639
Median age
42.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
71%
Occupied homes
5,682

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 20194?

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 20194. 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.

Within the county, 20194 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#39 of 43). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.

Fairfax County UCR book ZIP 20194 inherits

ZIP 20194 itself is about 4,031 people per Census sq mi across 3.1 sq mi (12,576 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 20194 is about 1.1% of the county reporting population (12,576 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 20194 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 20194

Similar county violent rate (~94/100K)

Similar Census population (~12,576)

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.