ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 24019
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)
- 28,194
- Population (ZIP)
- 191
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 24019 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 24019 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 24019 carries a Census-reported population of 28,194, ranking #4 of 14 ZIPs in Roanoke County, spread across 30.24 square miles (about 932 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 24019 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 24019 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
- $73,637
- Median age
- 44.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 79%
- Occupied homes
- 11,672
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 24019?
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 24019. 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 24019 sits near the middle of Roanoke County's ZIP population ordering (#4 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 24019 inherits
ZIP 24019 itself is about 932 people per Census sq mi across 30.2 sq mi (28,194 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 24019's 28,194 residents are about 29.1% 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 24019 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 24019
Similar county violent rate (~191/100K)
- ZIP 27909, NC · 189.8/100K · Pasquotank County
- ZIP 71457, LA · 191.9/100K · Natchitoches County
- ZIP 63130, MO · 189.6/100K · St. Louis County
- ZIP 65616, MO · 189.1/100K · Taney County
Similar Census population (~28,194)
- ZIP 78023, TX · 28,195 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 91731, CA · 28,201 pop · Δ7
- ZIP 40503, KY · 28,186 pop · Δ8
- ZIP 11530, NY · 28,207 pop · Δ13
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.