ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 59873

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

234
Property rate /100K (county)
2,663
Population (ZIP)
169
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 59873 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 59873 sits within Sanders County, MT. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Sanders County reported a violent-crime rate of 169 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 234 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 21 reported violent incidents across a county population of 12,400, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

ZIP 59873 carries a Census-reported population of 2,663, ranking #2 of 9 ZIPs in Sanders County, spread across 769.35 square miles (about 3 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Sanders County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Sanders County crime page linked below.

ZIP 59873 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Sanders County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 59873 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
$46,467
Median age
57.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
83%
Occupied homes
1,233

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

Sanders County UCR book ZIP 59873 inherits

ZIP 59873 itself is about 3 people per Census sq mi across 769.4 sq mi (2,663 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 59873's 2,663 residents are about 21.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (12,400), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Sanders County leans on larceny-theft at 34% of reported offenses (mix index 2,580). ZIP 59873 has no separate FBI offense book.

Sanders County 2024 vs 2023: property counts flat vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Sanders 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 59873

Similar county violent rate (~169/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,663)

County detail: Sanders 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.