ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 24055

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,125
Property rate /100K (county)
11,647
Population (ZIP)
190
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 24055 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 24055 sits within Henry County, VA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Henry County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 190 violent and 1,125 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 24055 carries a Census-reported population of 11,647, ranking #2 of 8 ZIPs in Henry County, spread across 86.61 square miles (about 134 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Henry County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Henry County crime page linked below.

ZIP 24055 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Henry County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 24055 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
$36,210
Median age
50.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
72%
Occupied homes
4,989

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 24055?

Within the participating-agency records for Henry County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 46% below and property crime is 34% 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 24055. 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.

24055 is comparatively spread out at about 134 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

Henry County UCR book ZIP 24055 inherits

ZIP 24055 itself is about 134 people per Census sq mi across 86.6 sq mi (11,647 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 24055's 11,647 residents are about 22.9% of the 2024 county reporting population (50,948), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Henry County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 670 offenses; mix index 4,513). ZIP 24055 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Henry County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -34% vs 2023; property counts -1% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Henry 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 24055

Similar county violent rate (~190/100K)

Similar Census population (~11,647)

County detail: Henry 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.