What is the crime rate for ZIP code 20855?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code, and for Montgomery County, MD (the county containing ZIP 20855) agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the UCR Program. The county figures shown cover only the agencies that submitted, so no meaningful crime rate can be stated for this area. Low reported counts here indicate missing reports, not an absence of crime.

What county is ZIP code 20855 in?

ZIP code 20855 is located in Montgomery County, MD.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 20855

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

16,558
Population (ZIP): 0
Violent rate /100K (county): 0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 20855 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 20855 sits within Montgomery County, MD, 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 20855 carries a Census-reported population of 16,558, ranking #27 of 48 ZIPs in Montgomery County, spread across 13.07 square miles (about 1,267 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Montgomery County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Montgomery County crime page linked below.

ZIP 20855 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Montgomery County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 20855 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: $146,036
Median age: 41.9 years
Owner-occupied homes: 80%
Occupied homes: 6,003

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

ZIP 20855 settlement vs Montgomery County

ZIP 20855 itself is about 1,267 people per Census sq mi across 13.1 sq mi (16,558 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 20855 is about 1.6% of the county reporting population (16,558 of 1,062,061), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

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 20855

Similar Census population (~16,558)

ZIP 12118, NY · 16,557 pop · Δ1
ZIP 77085, TX · 16,550 pop · Δ8
ZIP 92010, CA · 16,566 pop · Δ8
ZIP 44410, OH · 16,549 pop · Δ9

County detail: Montgomery County · State atlas: Maryland

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.