ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 59421
Cascade County, Montana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 203
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 2,025
- Population (ZIP)
- 127
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 59421 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 59421 sits within Cascade 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: 127 violent incidents and 203 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 59421 carries a Census-reported population of 2,025, ranking #4 of 15 ZIPs in Cascade County, spread across 746.58 square miles (about 3 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Cascade County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cascade County crime page linked below.
ZIP 59421 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Cascade County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 59421 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
- $69,563
- Median age
- 52.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 82%
- Occupied homes
- 925
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 59421?
Within the participating-agency records for Cascade County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 64% below and property crime is 88% 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 59421. 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.
59421 is comparatively spread out at about 3 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.
Cascade County UCR book ZIP 59421 inherits
ZIP 59421 itself is about 3 people per Census sq mi across 746.6 sq mi (2,025 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 59421 accounts for roughly 2.4% of the county reporting population (2,025 of 84,414).
Cascade County leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses (mix index 3,495). ZIP 59421 has no separate FBI offense book.
Cascade County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +19% vs 2023; property counts -16% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Cascade 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 59421
Similar county violent rate (~127/100K)
- ZIP 74727, OK · 126.7/100K · Choctaw County
- ZIP 31557, GA · 126.8/100K · Pierce County
- ZIP 22539, VA · 126.7/100K · Northumberland County
- ZIP 49713, MI · 126.7/100K · Charlevoix County
Similar Census population (~2,025)
- ZIP 42776, KY · 2,025 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 53203, WI · 2,025 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 12747, NY · 2,026 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 14718, NY · 2,024 pop · Δ1
County detail: Cascade 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.