ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 22971

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

988
Property rate /100K (county)
2,474
Population (ZIP)
149
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 22971 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 22971 sits within Nelson County, VA. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Nelson County reported a violent-crime rate of 149 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 988 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 22 reported violent incidents across a county population of 14,775, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

ZIP 22971 carries a Census-reported population of 2,474, ranking #3 of 12 ZIPs in Nelson County, spread across 55.95 square miles (about 44 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Nelson County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Nelson County crime page linked below.

ZIP 22971 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Nelson County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 22971 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
$74,441
Median age
34.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
76%
Occupied homes
735
Median home value
$285,800
Bachelor's degree or higher
13.5%
Poverty rate
5.7%
Unemployment rate
5.2%

ZIP 22971's median home value of $285,800 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).

Nelson County UCR book ZIP 22971 inherits

ZIP 22971 itself is about 44 people per Census sq mi across 56 sq mi (2,474 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 22971's 2,474 residents are about 16.7% of the 2024 county reporting population (14,775), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Nelson County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 168 offenses; mix index 4,521). ZIP 22971 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Nelson County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +23% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Nelson 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 22971

Similar county violent rate (~149/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,474)

County detail: Nelson 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.