ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 98052

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

149
Property rate /100K (county)
77,324
Population (ZIP)
22
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 98052 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 98052 sits within King County, WA, 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: 22 violent incidents and 149 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 98052 is the largest ZIP in King County by population, 77,324 residents (#1 of 86 county ZIPs), across 20.26 square miles (3,817/sq mi). For a full breakdown of King County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the King County crime page linked below.

ZIP 98052 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from King County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 98052 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
$158,457
Median age
35.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
48%
Occupied homes
31,338

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 98052?

Within the participating-agency records for King County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 94% below and property crime is 91% 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 98052. 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, 98052 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 86). Its 77,324 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

King County UCR book ZIP 98052 inherits

ZIP 98052 itself is about 3,817 people per Census sq mi across 20.3 sq mi (77,324 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 98052 accounts for roughly 3.4% of the county reporting population (77,324 of 2,269,675).

King County leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 3,158). ZIP 98052 has no separate FBI offense book.

King County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -19% vs 2023; property counts -15% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

King 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 98052

Similar county violent rate (~22/100K)

Similar Census population (~77,324)

County detail: King County · State atlas: Washington

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.