ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 24870

Wyoming County, West Virginia: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

159
Violent rate /100K (county)
1,398
Population (ZIP)
80
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 24870 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 24870 sits within Wyoming County, WV, 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: 159 violent incidents and 80 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 24870 is the largest ZIP in Wyoming County by population, 1,398 residents (#4 of 36 county ZIPs), across 34.77 square miles (40/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Wyoming County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Wyoming County crime page linked below.

ZIP 24870 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Wyoming County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 24870 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
$43,276
Median age
55.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
77%
Occupied homes
629

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 24870?

Within the participating-agency records for Wyoming County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 55% below and property crime is 95% 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 24870. 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, 24870 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#4 of 36). Its 1,398 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Wyoming County UCR book ZIP 24870 inherits

ZIP 24870 itself is about 40 people per Census sq mi across 34.8 sq mi (1,398 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 24870 accounts for roughly 6.5% of the county reporting population (1,398 of 21,382).

Wyoming County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (67% of 51 offenses; mix index 5,133). ZIP 24870 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Wyoming County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +10% vs 2023; property counts -57% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Wyoming 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 24870

Similar county violent rate (~159/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,398)

County detail: Wyoming County · State atlas: West Virginia

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.