ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 24541

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

552
Property rate /100K (county)
28,428
Population (ZIP)
106
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 24541 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 24541 sits within Pittsylvania 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: 106 violent incidents and 552 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 24541 is the largest ZIP in Pittsylvania County by population, 28,428 residents (#2 of 15 county ZIPs), across 75.16 square miles (378/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Pittsylvania County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Pittsylvania County crime page linked below.

ZIP 24541 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Pittsylvania County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 24541 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
$47,587
Median age
40.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
55%
Occupied homes
12,385

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 24541?

Within the participating-agency records for Pittsylvania County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 70% below and property crime is 68% 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 24541. 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, 24541 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#2 of 15). Its 28,428 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Pittsylvania County UCR book ZIP 24541 inherits

ZIP 24541 itself is about 378 people per Census sq mi across 75.2 sq mi (28,428 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 24541's 28,428 residents are about 47% of the 2024 county reporting population (60,501), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Pittsylvania County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 398 offenses; mix index 4,650). ZIP 24541 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Pittsylvania County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +16% vs 2023; property counts -8% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Pittsylvania 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 24541

Similar county violent rate (~106/100K)

Similar Census population (~28,428)

County detail: Pittsylvania 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.