ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 24251

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,187
Property rate /100K (county)
7,821
Population (ZIP)
167
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 24251 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 24251 sits within Scott 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: 167 violent incidents and 1,187 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 24251 is the largest ZIP in Scott County by population, 7,821 residents (#1 of 7 county ZIPs), across 117.16 square miles (67/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Scott County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Scott County crime page linked below.

ZIP 24251 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Scott County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 24251 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
$46,105
Median age
48.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
78%
Occupied homes
3,452

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 24251?

Within the participating-agency records for Scott County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 53% below and property crime is 31% 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 24251. 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, 24251 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 7). Its 7,821 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Scott County UCR book ZIP 24251 inherits

ZIP 24251 itself is about 67 people per Census sq mi across 117.2 sq mi (7,821 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 24251's 7,821 residents are about 36.2% of the 2024 county reporting population (21,576), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Scott County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 292 offenses; mix index 4,632). ZIP 24251 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Scott County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +16% vs 2023; property counts +13% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Scott 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 24251

Similar county violent rate (~167/100K)

Similar Census population (~7,821)

County detail: Scott 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.