ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 26187

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

259
Property rate /100K (county)
5,894
Population (ZIP)
63
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 26187 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 26187 sits within Wood 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: 63 violent incidents and 259 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 26187 carries a Census-reported population of 5,894, ranking #6 of 11 ZIPs in Wood County, spread across 21.53 square miles (about 274 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Wood County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Wood County crime page linked below.

ZIP 26187 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Wood County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 26187 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
$75,266
Median age
47.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
88%
Occupied homes
2,654

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 26187?

Within the participating-agency records for Wood County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 82% below and property crime is 85% 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 26187. 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 26187 sits near the middle of Wood County's ZIP population ordering (#6 of 11). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Wood County UCR book ZIP 26187 inherits

ZIP 26187 itself is about 274 people per Census sq mi across 21.5 sq mi (5,894 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 26187 accounts for roughly 7% of the county reporting population (5,894 of 84,296).

Wood County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 271 offenses; mix index 4,141). ZIP 26187 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Wood County 2024 vs 2021: violent counts +36% vs 2021; property counts -24% vs 2021. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Wood 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 26187

Similar county violent rate (~63/100K)

Similar Census population (~5,894)

County detail: Wood 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.