ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 63944

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

656
Property rate /100K (county)
1,407
Population (ZIP)
328
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 63944 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 63944 sits within Wayne County, MO. 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.

Wayne County reported a violent-crime rate of 328 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 656 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 63944 carries a Census-reported population of 1,407, ranking #4 of 11 ZIPs in Wayne County, spread across 165.84 square miles (about 8 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Wayne County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Wayne County crime page linked below.

ZIP 63944 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Wayne County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 63944 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
$65,900
Median age
53.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
96%
Occupied homes
578

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 63944?

Within the participating-agency records for Wayne County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 7% below and property crime is 62% 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 63944. 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.

63944 is comparatively spread out at about 8 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.

Wayne County UCR book ZIP 63944 inherits

ZIP 63944 itself is about 8 people per Census sq mi across 165.8 sq mi (1,407 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 63944 accounts for roughly 12.8% of the county reporting population (1,407 of 10,974).

Wayne County leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 3,199). ZIP 63944 has no separate FBI offense book.

Wayne County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +3% vs 2023; property counts -19% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Wayne 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 63944

Similar county violent rate (~328/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,407)

County detail: Wayne 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.