ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 39174
Madison County, Mississippi: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 116
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 689
- Population (ZIP)
- 58
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 39174 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 39174 sits within Madison County, MS, 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: 58 violent incidents and 116 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
With 689 residents, ZIP 39174 is among the smaller ZIPs in Madison County (#7 of 7 by population), spread across 0.25 square miles (2,756/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Madison County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Madison County crime page linked below.
ZIP 39174 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Madison County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 39174 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 age
- 20.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 0%
- Occupied homes
- 61
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 0.0%
- Poverty rate
- 0.0%
- Unemployment rate
- 9.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 39174?
Within the participating-agency records for Madison County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 84% below and property crime is 93% 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 39174. 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, 39174 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#7 of 7). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.
Madison County UCR book ZIP 39174 inherits
ZIP 39174 itself is about 2,756 people per Census sq mi across 0.3 sq mi (689 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 39174 is about 0.6% of the county reporting population (689 of 109,145), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Madison County leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses (mix index 3,778). ZIP 39174 has no separate FBI offense book.
Madison County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +19% vs 2023; property counts +12% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Madison 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 39174
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.