ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 26554

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

301
Property rate /100K (county)
41,983
Population (ZIP)
132
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 26554 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 26554 sits within Marion 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: 132 violent incidents and 301 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 26554 is the largest ZIP in Marion County by population, 41,983 residents (#1 of 14 county ZIPs), across 131.94 square miles (318/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Marion County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Marion County crime page linked below.

ZIP 26554 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Marion County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 26554 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
$59,875
Median age
38.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
71%
Occupied homes
17,597

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 26554?

Within the participating-agency records for Marion County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 63% below and property crime is 82% 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 26554. 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, 26554 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 14). Its 41,983 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Marion County UCR book ZIP 26554 inherits

ZIP 26554 itself is about 318 people per Census sq mi across 131.9 sq mi (41,983 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 26554's 41,983 residents are about 74.7% of the 2024 county reporting population (56,205), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Marion County leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses (mix index 3,852). ZIP 26554 has no separate FBI offense book.

Marion County 2024 vs 2022: violent counts +80% vs 2022; property counts +2% vs 2022. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Marion 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 26554

Similar county violent rate (~132/100K)

Similar Census population (~41,983)

County detail: Marion 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.