ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 59501

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

766
Property rate /100K (county)
12,358
Population (ZIP)
209
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 59501 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 59501 sits within Hill County, MT, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Hill County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 209 violent and 766 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 59501 is the largest ZIP in Hill County by population, 12,358 residents (#1 of 7 county ZIPs), across 1,345.42 square miles (9/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Hill County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Hill County crime page linked below.

ZIP 59501 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Hill County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 59501 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
$62,188
Median age
33.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
67%
Occupied homes
5,005

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 59501?

Within the participating-agency records for Hill County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 41% below and property crime is 55% 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 59501. 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.

Within the county, 59501 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 7). Its 12,358 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Hill County UCR book ZIP 59501 inherits

ZIP 59501 itself is about 9 people per Census sq mi across 1,345.4 sq mi (12,358 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 59501's 12,358 residents are about 75.8% of the 2024 county reporting population (16,309), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Hill County leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses (mix index 3,718). ZIP 59501 has no separate FBI offense book.

Hill County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +6% vs 2023; property counts +7% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Hill 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 59501

Similar county violent rate (~209/100K)

Similar Census population (~12,358)

County detail: Hill 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.