ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 59860

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

607
Property rate /100K (county)
11,528
Population (ZIP)
251
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 59860 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 59860 sits within Lake County, MT, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Lake County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 251 violent and 607 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 59860 is the largest ZIP in Lake County by population, 11,528 residents (#1 of 12 county ZIPs), across 261.69 square miles (44/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Lake County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Lake County crime page linked below.

ZIP 59860 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Lake County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 59860 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
$57,204
Median age
47.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
68%
Occupied homes
4,660

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 59860?

Within the participating-agency records for Lake County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 29% below and property crime is 65% 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 59860. 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, 59860 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 12). Its 11,528 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Lake County UCR book ZIP 59860 inherits

ZIP 59860 itself is about 44 people per Census sq mi across 261.7 sq mi (11,528 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 59860's 11,528 residents are about 37% of the 2024 county reporting population (31,134), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Lake County leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses (mix index 2,751). ZIP 59860 has no separate FBI offense book.

Lake County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -43% vs 2023; property counts -23% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Lake 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 59860

Similar county violent rate (~251/100K)

Similar Census population (~11,528)

County detail: Lake 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.