ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 97222

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

979
Property rate /100K (county)
37,058
Population (ZIP)
127
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 97222 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 97222 sits within Clackamas County, OR, 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: 127 violent incidents and 979 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 97222 is the largest ZIP in Clackamas County by population, 37,058 residents (#2 of 24 county ZIPs), across 8.65 square miles (4,284/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Clackamas County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Clackamas County crime page linked below.

ZIP 97222 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Clackamas County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 97222 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
$75,434
Median age
39.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
54%
Occupied homes
15,851

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 97222?

Within the participating-agency records for Clackamas County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 64% below and property crime is 43% 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 97222. 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, 97222 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#2 of 24). Its 37,058 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Clackamas County UCR book ZIP 97222 inherits

ZIP 97222 itself is about 4,284 people per Census sq mi across 8.7 sq mi (37,058 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 97222 accounts for roughly 8.8% of the county reporting population (37,058 of 421,401).

Clackamas County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 4,663 offenses; mix index 4,962). ZIP 97222 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Clackamas County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -1% vs 2023; property counts -9% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Clackamas 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 97222

Similar county violent rate (~127/100K)

Similar Census population (~37,058)

County detail: Clackamas County · State atlas: Oregon

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.