ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 23238

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

546
Property rate /100K (county)
26,521
Population (ZIP)
113
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 23238 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 23238 sits within Goochland 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.

Goochland County reported a violent-crime rate of 113 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 546 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 28 reported violent incidents across a county population of 24,727, 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 23238 is the largest ZIP in Goochland County by population, 26,521 residents (#1 of 9 county ZIPs), across 21.19 square miles (1,252/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Goochland County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Goochland County crime page linked below.

ZIP 23238 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Goochland County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 23238 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
$91,174
Median age
43.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
61%
Occupied homes
11,229

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

Goochland County UCR book ZIP 23238 inherits

ZIP 23238 itself is about 1,252 people per Census sq mi across 21.2 sq mi (26,521 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 23238's 26,521 residents are about 107.3% of the 2024 county reporting population (24,727), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Goochland County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 163 offenses; mix index 5,287). ZIP 23238 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Goochland County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -18% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Goochland 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 23238

Similar county violent rate (~113/100K)

Similar Census population (~26,521)

County detail: Goochland 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.