ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 22946
Albemarle County, Virginia: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 1,360
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 167
- Population (ZIP)
- 109
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 22946 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 22946 sits within Albemarle 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: 109 violent incidents and 1,360 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
With 167 residents, ZIP 22946 is among the smaller ZIPs in Albemarle County (#15 of 15 by population), spread across 1.88 square miles (89/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Albemarle County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Albemarle County crime page linked below.
ZIP 22946 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Albemarle County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 22946 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 age
- 34.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 100%
- Occupied homes
- 45
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 22946?
Within the participating-agency records for Albemarle County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 69% below and property crime is 21% 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 22946. 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, 22946 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#15 of 15). 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.
Albemarle County UCR book ZIP 22946 inherits
ZIP 22946 itself is about 89 people per Census sq mi across 1.9 sq mi (167 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 22946 is about 0.1% of the county reporting population (167 of 112,395), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Albemarle County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 1,650 offenses; mix index 6,688). ZIP 22946 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Albemarle 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.
Read with ZIP 22946
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.