What is the crime rate for ZIP code 26210?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code. ZIP 26210 is located in Upshur County, WV, which reported a violent-crime rate of 21 per 100,000 residents in 2024. This is the county's rate, the closest official FBI UCR figure available for this ZIP code. That figure is based on a small reported count and should be treated as a data point, not a precise ranking.

What county is ZIP code 26210 in?

ZIP code 26210 is located in Upshur County, WV.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 26210

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

21
Violent rate /100K (county): 0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 26210 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 26210 sits within Upshur County, WV. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Upshur County reported a violent-crime rate of 21 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 0 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 5 reported violent incidents across a county population of 23,816, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

ZIP 26210 shows a Census-reported population of zero, consistent with a non-residential ZIP (a PO-box-only, business-only, or otherwise unpopulated postal code). For a full breakdown of Upshur County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Upshur County crime page linked below.

ZIP 26210 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Upshur County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

Upshur County UCR book ZIP 26210 inherits

ZIP 26210 itself is about 0 people per Census sq mi across 0.3 sq mi (0 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 26210 is about 0% of the county reporting population (0 of 23,816), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Upshur County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (60% of 5 offenses; mix index 5,200). ZIP 26210 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Upshur County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -100% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Upshur County offense mix (2024)

Aggravated Assault 3 offenses (60%) Rape 2 offenses (40%)

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.

Read with ZIP 26210

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.