ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 25159
Putnam County, West Virginia: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 371
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 4,683
- Population (ZIP)
- 64
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 25159 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 25159 sits within Putnam 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: 64 violent incidents and 371 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 25159 carries a Census-reported population of 4,683, ranking #4 of 11 ZIPs in Putnam County, spread across 34.09 square miles (about 137 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Putnam County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Putnam County crime page linked below.
ZIP 25159 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Putnam County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 25159 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
- $54,949
- Median age
- 40.3 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 85%
- Occupied homes
- 1,751
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 25159?
Within the participating-agency records for Putnam County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 82% below and property crime is 78% 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 25159. 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.
25159 is comparatively spread out at about 137 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.
Putnam County UCR book ZIP 25159 inherits
ZIP 25159 itself is about 137 people per Census sq mi across 34.1 sq mi (4,683 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 25159 accounts for roughly 8.2% of the county reporting population (4,683 of 57,440).
Putnam County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 250 offenses; mix index 5,346). ZIP 25159 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Putnam County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +85% vs 2023; property counts +59% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Putnam 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 25159
Similar county violent rate (~64/100K)
- ZIP 61842, IL · 64.4/100K · DeWitt County
- ZIP 98249, WA · 64.5/100K · Island County
- ZIP 66064, KS · 64.3/100K · Miami County
- ZIP 97463, OR · 64.5/100K · Lane County
Similar Census population (~4,683)
- ZIP 47136, IN · 4,686 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 39328, MS · 4,688 pop · Δ5
- ZIP 53530, WI · 4,689 pop · Δ6
- ZIP 63764, MO · 4,677 pop · Δ6
County detail: Putnam 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.