ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 24474

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

466
Property rate /100K (county)
455
Population (ZIP)
210
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 24474 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 24474 sits within Alleghany County, VA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Alleghany County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 210 violent and 466 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 24474 carries a Census-reported population of 455, ranking #3 of 5 ZIPs in Alleghany County, spread across 0.59 square miles (about 771 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Alleghany County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Alleghany County crime page linked below.

ZIP 24474 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Alleghany County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 24474 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
$58,750
Median age
34.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
100%
Occupied homes
155
Median home value
$89,300
Bachelor's degree or higher
0.0%
Poverty rate
14.3%
Unemployment rate
0.0%

ZIP 24474's median home value of $89,300 is lower than 96% of the 717 VA ZIPs with a reported value, among the most affordable in the state by this measure.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 24474?

Within the participating-agency records for Alleghany County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 40% below and property crime is 73% 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 24474. 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 24474 sits near the middle of Alleghany County's ZIP population ordering (#3 of 5). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Alleghany County UCR book ZIP 24474 inherits

ZIP 24474 itself is about 771 people per Census sq mi across 0.6 sq mi (455 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 24474 accounts for roughly 3% of the county reporting population (455 of 15,223).

Alleghany County leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses (mix index 3,734). ZIP 24474 has no separate FBI offense book.

Alleghany County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +7% vs 2023; property counts +1% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Alleghany 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.

Read with ZIP 24474

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.