ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 63868
New Madrid County, Missouri: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 919
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 801
- Population (ZIP)
- 225
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 63868 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 63868 sits within New Madrid County, MO, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
New Madrid County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 225 violent and 919 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
ZIP 63868 carries a Census-reported population of 801, ranking #7 of 13 ZIPs in New Madrid County, spread across 0.99 square miles (about 809 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of New Madrid County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the New Madrid County crime page linked below.
ZIP 63868 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from New Madrid County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 63868 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
- $34,063
- Median age
- 42.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 57%
- Occupied homes
- 371
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 63868?
Within the participating-agency records for New Madrid County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 36% below and property crime is 46% 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 63868. 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.
ZIP 63868 sits near the middle of New Madrid County's ZIP population ordering (#7 of 13). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
New Madrid County UCR book ZIP 63868 inherits
ZIP 63868 itself is about 809 people per Census sq mi across 1 sq mi (801 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 63868 accounts for roughly 4.9% of the county reporting population (801 of 16,434).
New Madrid County leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses (mix index 3,378). ZIP 63868 has no separate FBI offense book.
New Madrid County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -7% vs 2023; property counts +29% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
New Madrid 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 63868
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.