ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 59916

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

583
Property rate /100K (county)
186
Population (ZIP)
218
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 59916 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 59916 sits within Flathead County, MT, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Flathead County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 218 violent and 583 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

With 186 residents, ZIP 59916 is among the smaller ZIPs in Flathead County (#14 of 14 by population), spread across 122.34 square miles (2/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Flathead County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Flathead County crime page linked below.

ZIP 59916 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Flathead County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 59916 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
$53,558
Median age
65.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
88%
Occupied homes
93
Median home value
$378,600
Bachelor's degree or higher
45.7%
Poverty rate
7.0%
Unemployment rate
3.6%

ZIP 59916's median home value of $378,600 sits higher than 82% 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 59916?

Within the participating-agency records for Flathead County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 38% below and property crime is 66% 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 59916. 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, 59916 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#14 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.

Flathead County UCR book ZIP 59916 inherits

ZIP 59916 itself is about 2 people per Census sq mi across 122.3 sq mi (186 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 59916 is about 0.2% of the county reporting population (186 of 104,357), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Flathead County leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses (mix index 3,293). ZIP 59916 has no separate FBI offense book.

Flathead 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.

Flathead 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 59916

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.

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.