ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 59059

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

444
Property rate /100K (county)
191
Population (ZIP)
338
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 59059 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 59059 sits within Musselshell 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.

Musselshell County reported a violent-crime rate of 338 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 444 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 16 reported violent incidents across a county population of 4,730, 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 191 residents, ZIP 59059 is among the smaller ZIPs in Musselshell County (#2 of 2 by population), spread across 366.27 square miles (1/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Musselshell County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Musselshell County crime page linked below.

ZIP 59059 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Musselshell County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 59059 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
$35,313
Median age
53.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
74%
Occupied homes
86
Median home value
$216,700
Bachelor's degree or higher
34.2%
Poverty rate
27.7%
Unemployment rate
0.0%

ZIP 59059's median home value of $216,700 sits higher than 42% 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).

Musselshell County UCR book ZIP 59059 inherits

ZIP 59059 itself is about 1 people per Census sq mi across 366.3 sq mi (191 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 59059 accounts for roughly 4% of the county reporting population (191 of 4,730).

Musselshell County leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 3,017). ZIP 59059 has no separate FBI offense book.

Musselshell County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -16% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Musselshell 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 59059

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.