ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 42086

McCracken County, Kentucky: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

483
Property rate /100K (county)
4,275
Population (ZIP)
60
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 42086 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 42086 sits within McCracken County, KY, 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: 60 violent incidents and 483 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

With 4,275 residents, ZIP 42086 is among the smaller ZIPs in McCracken County (#3 of 3 by population), spread across 31.26 square miles (137/sq mi). For a full breakdown of McCracken County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the McCracken County crime page linked below.

ZIP 42086 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from McCracken County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 42086 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
$79,053
Median age
42.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
85%
Occupied homes
1,521

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 42086?

Within the participating-agency records for McCracken County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 83% below and property crime is 72% 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 42086. 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, 42086 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.

McCracken County UCR book ZIP 42086 inherits

ZIP 42086 itself is about 137 people per Census sq mi across 31.3 sq mi (4,275 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 42086 accounts for roughly 6.3% of the county reporting population (4,275 of 67,875).

McCracken County leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses (mix index 3,784). ZIP 42086 has no separate FBI offense book.

McCracken County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +14% vs 2023; property counts +3% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

McCracken 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 42086

Similar county violent rate (~60/100K)

Similar Census population (~4,275)

County detail: McCracken County · State atlas: Kentucky

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.