ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 22959
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)
- 1,822
- Population (ZIP)
- 109
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 22959 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 22959 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 22959 carries a Census-reported population of 1,822, ranking #10 of 15 ZIPs in Albemarle County, spread across 46.43 square miles (about 39 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 22959 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 22959 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
- $108,606
- Median age
- 49.3 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 85%
- Occupied homes
- 677
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 22959?
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 22959. 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.
22959 is comparatively spread out at about 39 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 22959 inherits
ZIP 22959 itself is about 39 people per Census sq mi across 46.4 sq mi (1,822 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 22959 is about 1.6% of the county reporting population (1,822 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 22959 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 22959
Similar county violent rate (~109/100K)
- ZIP 48742, MI · 108.2/100K · Alcona County
- ZIP 54858, WI · 108.9/100K · Polk County
- ZIP 35585, AL · 109/100K · Franklin County
- ZIP 76556, TX · 109.1/100K · Milam County
Similar Census population (~1,822)
- ZIP 04971, ME · 1,822 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 14533, NY · 1,822 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 45148, OH · 1,822 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 68836, NE · 1,822 pop · Δ0
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.