ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 59255

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

389
Property rate /100K (county)
3,078
Population (ZIP)
232
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 59255 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 59255 sits within Roosevelt 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.

Roosevelt County reported a violent-crime rate of 232 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 389 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 25 reported violent incidents across a county population of 10,794, 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 59255 carries a Census-reported population of 3,078, ranking #2 of 6 ZIPs in Roosevelt County, spread across 688.84 square miles (about 4 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Roosevelt County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Roosevelt County crime page linked below.

ZIP 59255 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Roosevelt County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 59255 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
$40,474
Median age
25.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
61%
Occupied homes
757

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

Roosevelt County UCR book ZIP 59255 inherits

ZIP 59255 itself is about 4 people per Census sq mi across 688.8 sq mi (3,078 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 59255's 3,078 residents are about 28.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (10,794), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Roosevelt County leans on larceny-theft at 33% of reported offenses (mix index 2,569). ZIP 59255 has no separate FBI offense book.

Roosevelt County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +56% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Roosevelt 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 59255

Similar county violent rate (~232/100K)

Similar Census population (~3,078)

County detail: Roosevelt 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.