ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 25832
Raleigh County, West Virginia: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 778
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 4,322
- Population (ZIP)
- 170
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 25832 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 25832 sits within Raleigh 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: 170 violent incidents and 778 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 25832 is the largest ZIP in Raleigh County by population, 4,322 residents (#5 of 41 county ZIPs), across 12.54 square miles (345/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Raleigh County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Raleigh County crime page linked below.
ZIP 25832 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Raleigh County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 25832 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
- $81,544
- Median age
- 45.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 93%
- Occupied homes
- 1,773
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 25832?
Within the participating-agency records for Raleigh County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 52% below and property crime is 55% 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 25832. 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, 25832 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#5 of 41). Its 4,322 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.
Raleigh County UCR book ZIP 25832 inherits
ZIP 25832 itself is about 345 people per Census sq mi across 12.5 sq mi (4,322 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 25832 accounts for roughly 5.8% of the county reporting population (4,322 of 74,591).
Raleigh County leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses (mix index 3,770). ZIP 25832 has no separate FBI offense book.
Raleigh County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +57% vs 2023; property counts +8% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Raleigh 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 25832
Similar county violent rate (~170/100K)
- ZIP 83323, ID · 170.4/100K · Cassia County
- ZIP 28719, NC · 170/100K · Swain County
- ZIP 30224, GA · 170.9/100K · Spalding County
- ZIP 22567, VA · 171/100K · Orange County
Similar Census population (~4,322)
- ZIP 11954, NY · 4,322 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 21162, MD · 4,322 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 53038, WI · 4,323 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 38451, TN · 4,320 pop · Δ2
County detail: Raleigh 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.