ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 21666

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

549
Property rate /100K (county)
14,193
Population (ZIP)
84
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 21666 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 21666 sits within Queen Anne's County, MD, 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: 84 violent incidents and 549 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 21666 is the largest ZIP in Queen Anne's County by population, 14,193 residents (#1 of 12 county ZIPs), across 21.87 square miles (649/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Queen Anne's County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Queen Anne's County crime page linked below.

ZIP 21666 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Queen Anne's County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 21666 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
$119,154
Median age
44.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
80%
Occupied homes
5,499

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 21666?

Within the participating-agency records for Queen Anne's County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 76% below and property crime is 68% 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 21666. 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, 21666 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 12). Its 14,193 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Queen Anne's County UCR book ZIP 21666 inherits

ZIP 21666 itself is about 649 people per Census sq mi across 21.9 sq mi (14,193 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 21666's 14,193 residents are about 28.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (49,874), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Queen Anne's County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 316 offenses; mix index 5,301). ZIP 21666 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Queen Anne's County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +45% vs 2023; property counts -4% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Queen Anne's 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 21666

Similar county violent rate (~84/100K)

Similar Census population (~14,193)

County detail: Queen Anne's 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.