ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 59002
Yellowstone County, Montana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 352
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 187
- Population (ZIP)
- 135
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 59002 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 59002 sits within Yellowstone County, MT, 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: 135 violent incidents and 352 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
With 187 residents, ZIP 59002 is among the smaller ZIPs in Yellowstone County (#12 of 12 by population), spread across 79.38 square miles (2/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Yellowstone County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Yellowstone County crime page linked below.
ZIP 59002 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Yellowstone County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 59002 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
- $32,885
- Median age
- 36.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 41%
- Occupied homes
- 74
- Median home value
- $375,000
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 23.1%
- Poverty rate
- 38.0%
- Unemployment rate
- 9.0%
ZIP 59002's median home value of $375,000 sits higher than 81% of the 307 MT ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
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 59002?
Within the participating-agency records for Yellowstone County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 62% below and property crime is 79% 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 59002. 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, 59002 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#12 of 12). 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.
Yellowstone County UCR book ZIP 59002 inherits
ZIP 59002 itself is about 2 people per Census sq mi across 79.4 sq mi (187 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 59002 is about 0.1% of the county reporting population (187 of 164,731), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Yellowstone County leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 3,101). ZIP 59002 has no separate FBI offense book.
Yellowstone County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +50% vs 2023; property counts -4% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Yellowstone 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 59002
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.