ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 22947

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)
4,829
Population (ZIP)
109
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 22947 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 22947 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.

ZIP 22947 carries a Census-reported population of 4,829, ranking #9 of 15 ZIPs in Albemarle County, spread across 48.31 square miles (about 100 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Albemarle County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Albemarle County crime page linked below.

ZIP 22947 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 22947 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
$129,833
Median age
51.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
86%
Occupied homes
2,070

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 22947?

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 22947. 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.

22947 is comparatively spread out at about 100 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

Albemarle County UCR book ZIP 22947 inherits

ZIP 22947 itself is about 100 people per Census sq mi across 48.3 sq mi (4,829 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 22947 accounts for roughly 4.3% of the county reporting population (4,829 of 112,395).

Albemarle County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 1,650 offenses; mix index 6,688). ZIP 22947 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.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 22947

Similar county violent rate (~109/100K)

Similar Census population (~4,829)

County detail: Albemarle 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.