ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 24017

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,020
Property rate /100K (county)
23,756
Population (ZIP)
191
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 24017 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 24017 sits within Roanoke County, VA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Roanoke County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 191 violent and 1,020 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 24017 carries a Census-reported population of 23,756, ranking #5 of 14 ZIPs in Roanoke County, spread across 9.02 square miles (about 2,634 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Roanoke County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Roanoke County crime page linked below.

ZIP 24017 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Roanoke County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 24017 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
$43,097
Median age
37.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
50%
Occupied homes
9,634

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 24017?

Within the participating-agency records for Roanoke County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 46% below and property crime is 40% 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 24017. 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 24017 sits near the middle of Roanoke County's ZIP population ordering (#5 of 14). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Roanoke County UCR book ZIP 24017 inherits

ZIP 24017 itself is about 2,634 people per Census sq mi across 9 sq mi (23,756 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 24017's 23,756 residents are about 24.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (96,929), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Roanoke County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 1,174 offenses; mix index 5,587). ZIP 24017 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Roanoke 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 24017

Similar county violent rate (~191/100K)

Similar Census population (~23,756)

County detail: Roanoke 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.