ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 62226

St. Clair County, Illinois: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-09-05

105
Property rate /100K (county)
29,333
Population (ZIP)
38
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 62226 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 62226 sits within St. Clair County, IL, 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: 38 violent incidents and 105 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 62226 is the largest ZIP in St. Clair County by population, 29,333 residents (#3 of 27 county ZIPs), across 13.87 square miles (2,115/sq mi). For a full breakdown of St. Clair County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the St. Clair County crime page linked below.

ZIP 62226 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from St. Clair County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 62226 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
$66,054
Median age
41.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
66%
Occupied homes
11,878
Median home value
$148,900
Bachelor's degree or higher
32.2%
Poverty rate
12.5%
Unemployment rate
5.2%

ZIP 62226's median home value of $148,900 sits higher than 51% of the 1,137 IL 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 62226?

Within the participating-agency records for St. Clair County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 89% below and property crime is 94% 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 62226. 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, 62226 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#3 of 27). Its 29,333 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

St. Clair County UCR book ZIP 62226 inherits

ZIP 62226 itself is about 2,115 people per Census sq mi across 13.9 sq mi (29,333 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 62226 accounts for roughly 11.4% of the county reporting population (29,333 of 257,400).

St. Clair County leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses (mix index 2,773). ZIP 62226 has no separate FBI offense book.

St. Clair County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -22% vs 2023; property counts -21% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

St. Clair 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 62226

Similar county violent rate (~38/100K)

Similar Census population (~29,333)

County detail: St. Clair County · State atlas: Illinois

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.