ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 32459
Walton County, Florida: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 530
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 20,558
- Population (ZIP)
- 159
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 32459 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 32459 sits within Walton County, FL, 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: 159 violent incidents and 530 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 32459 is the largest ZIP in Walton County by population, 20,558 residents (#1 of 7 county ZIPs), across 54.51 square miles (377/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Walton County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Walton County crime page linked below.
ZIP 32459 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Walton County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 32459 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
- $99,081
- Median age
- 46.3 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 79%
- Occupied homes
- 8,638
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 32459?
Within the participating-agency records for Walton County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 55% below and property crime is 69% 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 32459. 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, 32459 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 7). Its 20,558 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.
Walton County UCR book ZIP 32459 inherits
ZIP 32459 itself is about 377 people per Census sq mi across 54.5 sq mi (20,558 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 32459's 20,558 residents are about 27.3% of the 2024 county reporting population (75,305), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Walton County leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses (mix index 3,939). ZIP 32459 has no separate FBI offense book.
Walton County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +4% vs 2023; property counts +10% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Walton 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 32459
Similar county violent rate (~159/100K)
- ZIP 75840, TX · 159.5/100K · Freestone County
- ZIP 87035, NM · 159.5/100K · Torrance County
- ZIP 38852, MS · 159.2/100K · Tishomingo County
- ZIP 71055, LA · 159.6/100K · Webster County
Similar Census population (~20,558)
- ZIP 98121, WA · 20,562 pop · Δ4
- ZIP 22206, VA · 20,553 pop · Δ5
- ZIP 19605, PA · 20,564 pop · Δ6
- ZIP 61073, IL · 20,567 pop · Δ9
County detail: Walton County · State atlas: Florida
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.