ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 26726

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

230
Property rate /100K (county)
12,541
Population (ZIP)
71
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 26726 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 26726 sits within Mineral 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.

Mineral County reported a violent-crime rate of 71 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 230 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 19 reported violent incidents across a county population of 26,938, 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 26726 is the largest ZIP in Mineral County by population, 12,541 residents (#1 of 8 county ZIPs), across 149.79 square miles (84/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Mineral County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Mineral County crime page linked below.

ZIP 26726 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Mineral County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 26726 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
$67,139
Median age
43.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
79%
Occupied homes
4,784

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

Mineral County UCR book ZIP 26726 inherits

ZIP 26726 itself is about 84 people per Census sq mi across 149.8 sq mi (12,541 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 26726's 12,541 residents are about 46.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (26,938), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Mineral County leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses (mix index 3,437). ZIP 26726 has no separate FBI offense book.

Mineral County 2024 vs 2022: property counts +44% vs 2022. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Mineral 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 26726

Similar county violent rate (~71/100K)

Similar Census population (~12,541)

County detail: Mineral 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.