ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 23229

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

2,045
Property rate /100K (county)
35,457
Population (ZIP)
172
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 23229 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 23229 sits within Henrico 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: 172 violent incidents and 2,045 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 23229 carries a Census-reported population of 35,457, ranking #5 of 13 ZIPs in Henrico County, spread across 14.01 square miles (about 2,531 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Henrico County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Henrico County crime page linked below.

ZIP 23229 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Henrico County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 23229 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
$97,993
Median age
38.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
70%
Occupied homes
13,600

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 23229?

Participating agencies give Henrico County a split reported profile: violent crime is 51% below the U.S. benchmark while property crime is 20% above it. The categories should be read separately; the submissions neither establish complete county coverage nor provide a ZIP-specific rate for 23229. 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 23229 sits near the middle of Henrico County's ZIP population ordering (#5 of 13). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Henrico County UCR book ZIP 23229 inherits

ZIP 23229 itself is about 2,531 people per Census sq mi across 14 sq mi (35,457 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 23229 accounts for roughly 10.6% of the county reporting population (35,457 of 334,389).

Henrico County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 7,413 offenses; mix index 6,610). ZIP 23229 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Henrico 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 23229

Similar county violent rate (~172/100K)

Similar Census population (~35,457)

County detail: Henrico 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.