ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 26237
Upshur County, West Virginia: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 21
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 438
- Population (ZIP)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 26237 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 26237 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 26237 carries a Census-reported population of 438, ranking #4 of 6 ZIPs in Upshur County, spread across 35.31 square miles (about 12 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Upshur County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Upshur County crime page linked below.
ZIP 26237 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.
ZIP 26237 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
- $78,043
- Median age
- 50.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 100%
- Occupied homes
- 180
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
Upshur County UCR book ZIP 26237 inherits
ZIP 26237 itself is about 12 people per Census sq mi across 35.3 sq mi (438 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 26237 is about 1.8% of the county reporting population (438 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 26237 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)
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 26237
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.