ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 22534

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

635
Property rate /100K (county)
3,452
Population (ZIP)
246
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 22534 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 22534 sits within Spotsylvania County, VA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Spotsylvania County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 246 violent and 635 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

With 3,452 residents, ZIP 22534 is among the smaller ZIPs in Spotsylvania County (#5 of 5 by population), spread across 33.16 square miles (104/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Spotsylvania County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Spotsylvania County crime page linked below.

ZIP 22534 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Spotsylvania County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 22534 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
$122,724
Median age
32.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
92%
Occupied homes
1,037
Median home value
$292,000
Bachelor's degree or higher
17.8%
Poverty rate
8.7%
Unemployment rate
5.4%

ZIP 22534's median home value of $292,000 sits higher than 62% of the 717 VA ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.

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

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 22534?

Within the participating-agency records for Spotsylvania County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 30% below and property crime is 63% 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 22534. 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, 22534 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#5 of 5). 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.

Spotsylvania County UCR book ZIP 22534 inherits

ZIP 22534 itself is about 104 people per Census sq mi across 33.2 sq mi (3,452 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 22534 accounts for roughly 2.5% of the county reporting population (3,452 of 140,032).

Spotsylvania County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 1,233 offenses; mix index 4,177). ZIP 22534 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Spotsylvania County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +1% vs 2023; property counts +25% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Spotsylvania 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 22534

Similar county violent rate (~246/100K)

Similar Census population (~3,452)

County detail: Spotsylvania 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.