ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 59871
Ravalli County, Montana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 496
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 302
- Population (ZIP)
- 188
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 59871 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 59871 sits within Ravalli County, MT, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Ravalli County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 188 violent and 496 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
With 302 residents, ZIP 59871 is among the smaller ZIPs in Ravalli County (#8 of 9 by population), spread across 307.84 square miles (1/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Ravalli County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Ravalli County crime page linked below.
ZIP 59871 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Ravalli County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 59871 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
- $75,500
- Median age
- 66.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 76%
- Occupied homes
- 146
- Median home value
- $299,000
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 18.6%
- Poverty rate
- 13.6%
- Unemployment rate
- 0.0%
ZIP 59871's median home value of $299,000 sits higher than 67% 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).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 59871?
Within the participating-agency records for Ravalli County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 47% below and property crime is 71% 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 59871. 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, 59871 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#8 of 9). 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.
Ravalli County UCR book ZIP 59871 inherits
ZIP 59871 itself is about 1 people per Census sq mi across 307.8 sq mi (302 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 59871 is about 0.7% of the county reporting population (302 of 44,174), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Ravalli County leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses (mix index 3,880). ZIP 59871 has no separate FBI offense book.
Ravalli County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -8% vs 2023; property counts +9% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Ravalli 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 59871
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.