ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 63785

Cape Girardeau County, Missouri: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

146
Property rate /100K (county)
1,077
Population (ZIP)
61
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 63785 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 63785 sits within Cape Girardeau County, MO, 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: 61 violent incidents and 146 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 63785 carries a Census-reported population of 1,077, ranking #6 of 11 ZIPs in Cape Girardeau County, spread across 49.9 square miles (about 22 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Cape Girardeau County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cape Girardeau County crime page linked below.

ZIP 63785 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Cape Girardeau County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 63785 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
$55,625
Median age
50.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
96%
Occupied homes
444

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 63785?

Within the participating-agency records for Cape Girardeau County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 83% below and property crime is 91% 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 63785. 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.

63785 is comparatively spread out at about 22 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

Cape Girardeau County UCR book ZIP 63785 inherits

ZIP 63785 itself is about 22 people per Census sq mi across 49.9 sq mi (1,077 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 63785 is about 1.3% of the county reporting population (1,077 of 81,710), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Cape Girardeau County leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses (mix index 2,935). ZIP 63785 has no separate FBI offense book.

Cape Girardeau County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +47% vs 2023; property counts +1% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Cape Girardeau 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 63785

Similar county violent rate (~61/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,077)

County detail: Cape Girardeau County · State atlas: Missouri

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.