ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 59336

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

93
Property rate /100K (county)
222
Population (ZIP)
42
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 59336 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 59336 sits within Custer 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.

Custer County reported a violent-crime rate of 42 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 93 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 5 reported violent incidents across a county population of 11,867, 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 59336 carries a Census-reported population of 222, ranking #2 of 4 ZIPs in Custer County, spread across 1,046.99 square miles. For a full breakdown of Custer County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Custer County crime page linked below.

ZIP 59336 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Custer County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 59336 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
$60,625
Median age
43.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
85%
Occupied homes
78
Median home value
$277,300
Bachelor's degree or higher
37.9%
Poverty rate
2.7%
Unemployment rate
6.1%

ZIP 59336's median home value of $277,300 sits higher than 62% 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).

Custer County UCR book ZIP 59336 inherits

ZIP 59336 itself is about 0 people per Census sq mi across 1,047 sq mi (222 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 59336 is about 1.9% of the county reporting population (222 of 11,867), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Custer County leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses (mix index 3,828). ZIP 59336 has no separate FBI offense book.

Custer County 2024 vs 2022: property counts -48% vs 2022. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Custer 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 59336

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.