ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 23139

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

574
Property rate /100K (county)
26,719
Population (ZIP)
135
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 23139 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 23139 sits within Powhatan 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: 135 violent incidents and 574 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 23139 carries a Census-reported population of 26,719, ranking #1 of 2 ZIPs in Powhatan County, spread across 240.49 square miles (about 111 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Powhatan County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Powhatan County crime page linked below.

ZIP 23139 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Powhatan County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 23139 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
$107,265
Median age
45.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
91%
Occupied homes
10,025

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 23139?

Within the participating-agency records for Powhatan County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 62% below and property crime is 66% 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 23139. 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.

23139 is comparatively spread out at about 111 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.

Powhatan County UCR book ZIP 23139 inherits

ZIP 23139 itself is about 111 people per Census sq mi across 240.5 sq mi (26,719 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 23139's 26,719 residents are about 88.1% of the 2024 county reporting population (30,333), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Powhatan County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 215 offenses; mix index 5,757). ZIP 23139 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Powhatan County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +14% vs 2023; property counts -5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Powhatan 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 23139

Similar county violent rate (~135/100K)

Similar Census population (~26,719)

County detail: Powhatan 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.