ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 26422
Harrison County, West Virginia: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 322
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 324
- Population (ZIP)
- 53
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 26422 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 26422 sits within Harrison County, WV, 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: 53 violent incidents and 322 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 26422 carries a Census-reported population of 324, ranking #12 of 17 ZIPs in Harrison County, spread across 2.59 square miles (about 125 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Harrison County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Harrison County crime page linked below.
ZIP 26422 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Harrison County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 26422 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
- $69,803
- Median age
- 47.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 85%
- Occupied homes
- 149
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 26422?
Within the participating-agency records for Harrison County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 85% below and property crime is 81% 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 26422. 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.
26422 is comparatively spread out at about 125 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.
Harrison County UCR book ZIP 26422 inherits
ZIP 26422 itself is about 125 people per Census sq mi across 2.6 sq mi (324 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 26422 is about 0.5% of the county reporting population (324 of 65,921), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Harrison County leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses (mix index 3,615). ZIP 26422 has no separate FBI offense book.
Harrison County 2024 vs 2021: violent counts -22% vs 2021; property counts -7% vs 2021. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Harrison 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 26422
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.