ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 41859
Knott County, Kentucky: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 21
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 231
- Population (ZIP)
- 0
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 41859 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 41859 sits within Knott County, KY. 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.
Knott County reported a violent-crime rate of 0 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 21 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 0 reported violent incidents across a county population of 14,251, 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.
With 231 residents, ZIP 41859 is among the smaller ZIPs in Knott County (#19 of 21 by population), spread across 7.12 square miles (32/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Knott County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Knott County crime page linked below.
ZIP 41859 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Knott County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 41859 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
- 60.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 89%
- Occupied homes
- 114
- Median home value
- $52,700
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 11.5%
- Poverty rate
- 39.0%
- Unemployment rate
- 0.0%
ZIP 41859's median home value of $52,700 is lower than 96% of the 646 KY ZIPs with a reported value, among the most affordable in the state by this measure.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
Knott County UCR book ZIP 41859 inherits
ZIP 41859 itself is about 32 people per Census sq mi across 7.1 sq mi (231 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 41859 is about 1.6% of the county reporting population (231 of 14,251), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Knott County leans on larceny-theft at 33% of reported offenses (mix index 3,333). ZIP 41859 has no separate FBI offense book.
Knott County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -67% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Knott 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 41859
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.