ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 25560
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)
- 7,949
- Population (ZIP)
- 64
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 25560 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 25560 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 25560 carries a Census-reported population of 7,949, ranking #2 of 11 ZIPs in Putnam County, spread across 21.22 square miles (about 375 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 25560 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 25560 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
- $100,410
- Median age
- 47.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 76%
- Occupied homes
- 3,296
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 25560?
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 25560. 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.
ZIP 25560 sits near the middle of Putnam County's ZIP population ordering (#2 of 11). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Putnam County UCR book ZIP 25560 inherits
ZIP 25560 itself is about 375 people per Census sq mi across 21.2 sq mi (7,949 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 25560 accounts for roughly 13.8% of the county reporting population (7,949 of 57,440).
Putnam County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 250 offenses; mix index 5,346). ZIP 25560 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 25560
Similar county violent rate (~64/100K)
- ZIP 61727, IL · 64.4/100K · DeWitt County
- ZIP 98239, WA · 64.5/100K · Island County
- ZIP 66053, KS · 64.3/100K · Miami County
- ZIP 97487, OR · 64.5/100K · Lane County
Similar Census population (~7,949)
- ZIP 20833, MD · 7,949 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 30740, GA · 7,951 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 43566, OH · 7,947 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 38355, TN · 7,946 pop · Δ3
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.