ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 25976

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

455
Property rate /100K (county)
2,339
Population (ZIP)
101
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 25976 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 25976 sits within Fayette 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: 101 violent incidents and 455 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 25976 is the largest ZIP in Fayette County by population, 2,339 residents (#4 of 42 county ZIPs), across 73.91 square miles (32/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Fayette County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Fayette County crime page linked below.

ZIP 25976 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Fayette County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 25976 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
$43,198
Median age
56.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
87%
Occupied homes
966

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 25976?

Within the participating-agency records for Fayette County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 71% below and property crime is 73% 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 25976. 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, 25976 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#4 of 42). Its 2,339 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Fayette County UCR book ZIP 25976 inherits

ZIP 25976 itself is about 32 people per Census sq mi across 73.9 sq mi (2,339 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 25976 accounts for roughly 5.8% of the county reporting population (2,339 of 40,488).

Fayette County leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 3,241). ZIP 25976 has no separate FBI offense book.

Fayette County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -11% vs 2023; property counts +5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Fayette 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 25976

Similar county violent rate (~101/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,339)

County detail: Fayette 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.