ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 23856
Brunswick County, Virginia: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 581
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 881
- Population (ZIP)
- 133
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 23856 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 23856 sits within Brunswick 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.
Brunswick County reported a violent-crime rate of 133 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 581 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 21 reported violent incidents across a county population of 15,849, 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 23856 carries a Census-reported population of 881, ranking #4 of 12 ZIPs in Brunswick County, spread across 51.18 square miles (about 17 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Brunswick County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Brunswick County crime page linked below.
ZIP 23856 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Brunswick County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 23856 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
- $40,711
- Median age
- 51.0 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 47%
- Occupied homes
- 541
- Median home value
- $104,400
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 9.2%
- Poverty rate
- 18.8%
- Unemployment rate
- 1.5%
ZIP 23856's median home value of $104,400 is lower than 92% of the 717 VA ZIPs with a reported value, among the most affordable in the state by this measure.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
Brunswick County UCR book ZIP 23856 inherits
ZIP 23856 itself is about 17 people per Census sq mi across 51.2 sq mi (881 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 23856 accounts for roughly 5.6% of the county reporting population (881 of 15,849).
Brunswick County leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses (mix index 3,697). ZIP 23856 has no separate FBI offense book.
Brunswick County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +21% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Brunswick 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.
Read with ZIP 23856
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.