ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 22406

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

813
Property rate /100K (county)
26,702
Population (ZIP)
239
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 22406 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 22406 sits within Stafford County, VA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Stafford County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 239 violent and 813 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 22406 carries a Census-reported population of 26,702, ranking #4 of 5 ZIPs in Stafford County, spread across 72.71 square miles (about 367 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Stafford County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Stafford County crime page linked below.

ZIP 22406 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Stafford County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 22406 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
$116,784
Median age
42.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
77%
Occupied homes
9,657

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 22406?

Within the participating-agency records for Stafford County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 32% below and property crime is 52% 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 22406. 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 22406 sits near the middle of Stafford County's ZIP population ordering (#4 of 5). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Stafford County UCR book ZIP 22406 inherits

ZIP 22406 itself is about 367 people per Census sq mi across 72.7 sq mi (26,702 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 22406's 26,702 residents are about 17% of the 2024 county reporting population (156,927), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Stafford County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 1,650 offenses; mix index 4,696). ZIP 22406 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Stafford County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +17% vs 2023; property counts -11% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Stafford 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 22406

Similar county violent rate (~239/100K)

Similar Census population (~26,702)

County detail: Stafford 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.