ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 24060

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

193
Property rate /100K (county)
48,423
Population (ZIP)
56
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 24060 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 24060 sits within Montgomery County, VA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 56 violent incidents and 193 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 24060 is the largest ZIP in Montgomery County by population, 48,423 residents (#1 of 7 county ZIPs), across 130.82 square miles (370/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Montgomery County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Montgomery County crime page linked below.

ZIP 24060 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Montgomery County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 24060 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
$57,270
Median age
27.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
43%
Occupied homes
18,731

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 24060?

Within the participating-agency records for Montgomery County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 84% below and property crime is 89% 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 24060. 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.

Within the county, 24060 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 7). Its 48,423 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Montgomery County UCR book ZIP 24060 inherits

ZIP 24060 itself is about 370 people per Census sq mi across 130.8 sq mi (48,423 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 24060's 48,423 residents are about 48.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (99,721), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Montgomery County leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses (mix index 3,752). ZIP 24060 has no separate FBI offense book.

Montgomery County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -15% vs 2023; property counts -22% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Montgomery 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 24060

Similar county violent rate (~56/100K)

Similar Census population (~48,423)

County detail: Montgomery 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.