ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 59846

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

120
Property rate /100K (county)
1,295
Population (ZIP)
112
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 59846 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 59846 sits within Missoula 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: 112 violent incidents and 120 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

With 1,295 residents, ZIP 59846 is among the smaller ZIPs in Missoula County (#12 of 14 by population), spread across 210.47 square miles (6/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Missoula County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Missoula County crime page linked below.

ZIP 59846 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Missoula County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 59846 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
$58,750
Median age
61.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
97%
Occupied homes
634

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 59846?

Within the participating-agency records for Missoula County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 68% below and property crime is 93% 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 59846. 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, 59846 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#12 of 14). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.

Missoula County UCR book ZIP 59846 inherits

ZIP 59846 itself is about 6 people per Census sq mi across 210.5 sq mi (1,295 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 59846 is about 1.1% of the county reporting population (1,295 of 117,922), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Missoula County leans on aggravated assault at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 3,024). ZIP 59846 has no separate FBI offense book.

Missoula County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +26% vs 2023; property counts -54% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Missoula 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 59846

Similar county violent rate (~112/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,295)

County detail: Missoula 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.