ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 65257

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

154
Violent rate /100K (county)
1,770
Population (ZIP)
93
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 65257 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 65257 sits within Randolph 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: 154 violent incidents and 93 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 65257 carries a Census-reported population of 1,770, ranking #5 of 8 ZIPs in Randolph County, spread across 86.32 square miles (about 21 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Randolph County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Randolph County crime page linked below.

ZIP 65257 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Randolph County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 65257 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
$61,023
Median age
35.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
86%
Occupied homes
573

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 65257?

Within the participating-agency records for Randolph County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 56% below and property crime is 95% 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 65257. 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.

65257 is comparatively spread out at about 21 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.

Randolph County UCR book ZIP 65257 inherits

ZIP 65257 itself is about 21 people per Census sq mi across 86.3 sq mi (1,770 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 65257 accounts for roughly 7.2% of the county reporting population (1,770 of 24,716).

Randolph County leans on aggravated assault at 54% of reported offenses (mix index 3,752). ZIP 65257 has no separate FBI offense book.

Randolph County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -12% vs 2023; property counts -8% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Randolph 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 65257

Similar county violent rate (~154/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,770)

County detail: Randolph 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.