ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 59050

Big Horn County, Montana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

556
Property rate /100K (county)
1,602
Population (ZIP)
335
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 59050 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 59050 sits within Big Horn County, MT. 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.

Big Horn County reported a violent-crime rate of 335 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 556 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 59050 carries a Census-reported population of 1,602, ranking #3 of 11 ZIPs in Big Horn County, spread across 738.74 square miles (about 2 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Big Horn County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Big Horn County crime page linked below.

ZIP 59050 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Big Horn County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 59050 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
$62,679
Median age
32.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
70%
Occupied homes
347

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 59050?

Within the participating-agency records for Big Horn County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 5% below and property crime is 68% 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 59050. 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.

59050 is comparatively spread out at about 2 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

Big Horn County UCR book ZIP 59050 inherits

ZIP 59050 itself is about 2 people per Census sq mi across 738.7 sq mi (1,602 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 59050 accounts for roughly 12.2% of the county reporting population (1,602 of 13,124).

Big Horn County keeps 6 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,487); larceny-theft still leads at 32%. ZIP 59050 inherits the county book.

Big Horn County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -25% vs 2023; property counts -8% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Big Horn 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 59050

Similar county violent rate (~335/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,602)

County detail: Big Horn County · State atlas: Montana

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.