ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 98826
Chelan County, Washington: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 304
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 7,689
- Population (ZIP)
- 46
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 98826 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 98826 sits within Chelan 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: 46 violent incidents and 304 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 98826 carries a Census-reported population of 7,689, ranking #2 of 13 ZIPs in Chelan County, spread across 1,015.63 square miles (about 8 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Chelan County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Chelan County crime page linked below.
ZIP 98826 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Chelan County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 98826 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
- $80,742
- Median age
- 56.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 72%
- Occupied homes
- 3,389
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 98826?
Within the participating-agency records for Chelan County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 87% below and property crime is 82% 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 98826. 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.
98826 is comparatively spread out at about 8 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.
Chelan County UCR book ZIP 98826 inherits
ZIP 98826 itself is about 8 people per Census sq mi across 1,015.6 sq mi (7,689 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 98826 accounts for roughly 9.7% of the county reporting population (7,689 of 79,074).
Chelan County leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses (mix index 3,411). ZIP 98826 has no separate FBI offense book.
Chelan County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -14% vs 2023; property counts -15% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Chelan 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 98826
Similar county violent rate (~46/100K)
- ZIP 76272, TX · 45.6/100K · Cooke County
- ZIP 62321, IL · 45.4/100K · Hancock County
- ZIP 56283, MN · 45.4/100K · Redwood County
- ZIP 97827, OR · 45.8/100K · Union County
Similar Census population (~7,689)
- ZIP 14445, NY · 7,689 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 77486, TX · 7,689 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 14057, NY · 7,688 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 45764, OH · 7,688 pop · Δ1
County detail: Chelan 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.