ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 24151

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

633
Property rate /100K (county)
18,506
Population (ZIP)
129
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 24151 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 24151 sits within Franklin 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: 129 violent incidents and 633 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 24151 is the largest ZIP in Franklin County by population, 18,506 residents (#1 of 10 county ZIPs), across 165.4 square miles (112/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Franklin County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Franklin County crime page linked below.

ZIP 24151 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Franklin County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 24151 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
$61,740
Median age
45.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
71%
Occupied homes
7,451

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 24151?

Within the participating-agency records for Franklin County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 63% below and property crime is 63% 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 24151. 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, 24151 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 10). Its 18,506 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Franklin County UCR book ZIP 24151 inherits

ZIP 24151 itself is about 112 people per Census sq mi across 165.4 sq mi (18,506 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 24151's 18,506 residents are about 34% of the 2024 county reporting population (54,477), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Franklin County leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses (mix index 3,467). ZIP 24151 has no separate FBI offense book.

Franklin County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +49% vs 2023; property counts +3% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Franklin 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 24151

Similar county violent rate (~129/100K)

Similar Census population (~18,506)

County detail: Franklin 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.