ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 23185

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

958
Property rate /100K (county)
53,373
Population (ZIP)
138
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 23185 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 23185 sits within James City 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: 138 violent incidents and 958 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 23185 carries a Census-reported population of 53,373, ranking #1 of 4 ZIPs in James City County, spread across 57.24 square miles (about 932 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of James City County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the James City County crime page linked below.

ZIP 23185 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from James City County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 23185 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
$98,713
Median age
40.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
72%
Occupied homes
19,327

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 23185?

Within the participating-agency records for James City County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 61% below and property crime is 44% 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 23185. 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.

ZIP 23185 sits near the middle of James City County's ZIP population ordering (#1 of 4). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

James City County UCR book ZIP 23185 inherits

ZIP 23185 itself is about 932 people per Census sq mi across 57.2 sq mi (53,373 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 23185's 53,373 residents are about 68.2% of the 2024 county reporting population (78,254), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

James City County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 858 offenses; mix index 6,197). ZIP 23185 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

James City 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 23185

Similar county violent rate (~138/100K)

Similar Census population (~53,373)

County detail: James City 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.