ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 39769
Oktibbeha County, Mississippi: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 407
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 1,450
- Population (ZIP)
- 89
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 39769 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 39769 sits within Oktibbeha 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: 89 violent incidents and 407 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
With 1,450 residents, ZIP 39769 is among the smaller ZIPs in Oktibbeha County (#3 of 3 by population), spread across 130.3 square miles (11/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Oktibbeha County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Oktibbeha County crime page linked below.
ZIP 39769 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Oktibbeha County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 39769 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
- $49,563
- Median age
- 35.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 73%
- Occupied homes
- 647
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 39769?
Within the participating-agency records for Oktibbeha County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 75% below and property crime is 76% 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 39769. 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, 39769 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#3 of 3). 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.
Oktibbeha County UCR book ZIP 39769 inherits
ZIP 39769 itself is about 11 people per Census sq mi across 130.3 sq mi (1,450 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 39769 accounts for roughly 2.8% of the county reporting population (1,450 of 51,788).
Oktibbeha County leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses (mix index 3,370). ZIP 39769 has no separate FBI offense book.
Oktibbeha County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -19% vs 2023; property counts -17% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Oktibbeha 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 39769
Similar county violent rate (~89/100K)
- ZIP 35098, AL · 88.8/100K · Cullman County
- ZIP 43963, OH · 88.9/100K · Jefferson County
- ZIP 73459, OK · 88.7/100K · Love County
- ZIP 27349, NC · 88.7/100K · Alamance County
Similar Census population (~1,450)
- ZIP 24122, VA · 1,450 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 49759, MI · 1,450 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 54977, WI · 1,450 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 58027, ND · 1,450 pop · Δ0
County detail: Oktibbeha County · State atlas: Mississippi
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.