ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 98251

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

392
Property rate /100K (county)
4,703
Population (ZIP)
53
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 98251 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 98251 sits within Snohomish 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: 53 violent incidents and 392 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

With 4,703 residents, ZIP 98251 is among the smaller ZIPs in Snohomish County (#24 of 27 by population), spread across 160.65 square miles (29/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Snohomish County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Snohomish County crime page linked below.

ZIP 98251 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Snohomish County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 98251 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
$71,175
Median age
40.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
84%
Occupied homes
1,865

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 98251?

Within the participating-agency records for Snohomish County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 85% below and property crime is 77% 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 98251. 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, 98251 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#24 of 27). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.

Snohomish County UCR book ZIP 98251 inherits

ZIP 98251 itself is about 29 people per Census sq mi across 160.7 sq mi (4,703 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 98251 is about 0.6% of the county reporting population (4,703 of 827,957), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Snohomish County leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 3,134). ZIP 98251 has no separate FBI offense book.

Snohomish County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -7% vs 2023; property counts -11% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Snohomish 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 98251

Similar county violent rate (~53/100K)

Similar Census population (~4,703)

County detail: Snohomish 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.