ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 24574
Amherst County, Virginia: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 939
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 4,228
- Population (ZIP)
- 220
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 24574 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 24574 sits within Amherst County, VA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Amherst County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 220 violent and 939 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
ZIP 24574 carries a Census-reported population of 4,228, ranking #3 of 4 ZIPs in Amherst County, spread across 106.44 square miles (about 40 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Amherst County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Amherst County crime page linked below.
ZIP 24574 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Amherst County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 24574 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
- $59,732
- Median age
- 46.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 84%
- Occupied homes
- 1,564
- Median home value
- $203,300
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 25.3%
- Poverty rate
- 13.6%
- Unemployment rate
- 1.4%
ZIP 24574's median home value of $203,300 sits higher than 39% of the 717 VA ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
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 24574?
Within the participating-agency records for Amherst County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 38% below and property crime is 45% 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 24574. 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.
24574 is comparatively spread out at about 40 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.
Amherst County UCR book ZIP 24574 inherits
ZIP 24574 itself is about 40 people per Census sq mi across 106.4 sq mi (4,228 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 24574 accounts for roughly 13.5% of the county reporting population (4,228 of 31,307).
Amherst County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 363 offenses; mix index 4,708). ZIP 24574 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Amherst County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -8% vs 2023; property counts +6% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Amherst 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 24574
Similar county violent rate (~220/100K)
- ZIP 29696, SC · 220.1/100K · Oconee County
- ZIP 28636, NC · 219.5/100K · Alexander County
- ZIP 71038, LA · 218.8/100K · Claiborne County
- ZIP 72365, AR · 222.1/100K · Poinsett County
Similar Census population (~4,228)
- ZIP 30471, GA · 4,228 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 04930, ME · 4,226 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 08223, NJ · 4,230 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 12790, NY · 4,226 pop · Δ2
County detail: Amherst 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.