ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 58261

Walsh County, North Dakota: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

350
Property rate /100K (county)
1,295
Population (ZIP)
95
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 58261 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 58261 sits within Walsh County, ND. 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.

Walsh County reported a violent-crime rate of 95 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 350 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 10 reported violent incidents across a county population of 10,563, 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.

ZIP 58261 carries a Census-reported population of 1,295, ranking #3 of 11 ZIPs in Walsh County, spread across 167.26 square miles (about 8 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Walsh County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Walsh County crime page linked below.

ZIP 58261 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Walsh County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 58261 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
$65,833
Median age
44.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
93%
Occupied homes
530

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

Walsh County UCR book ZIP 58261 inherits

ZIP 58261 itself is about 8 people per Census sq mi across 167.3 sq mi (1,295 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 58261 accounts for roughly 12.3% of the county reporting population (1,295 of 10,563).

Walsh County leans on larceny-theft at 60% of reported offenses (mix index 3,925). ZIP 58261 has no separate FBI offense book.

Walsh County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +23% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Walsh 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 58261

Similar county violent rate (~95/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,295)

County detail: Walsh County · State atlas: North Dakota

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.