ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 65340

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

291
Property rate /100K (county)
15,805
Population (ZIP)
214
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 65340 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 65340 sits within Saline County, MO, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Saline County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 214 violent and 291 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 65340 is the largest ZIP in Saline County by population, 15,805 residents (#1 of 10 county ZIPs), across 254.04 square miles (62/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Saline County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Saline County crime page linked below.

ZIP 65340 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Saline County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 65340 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
$53,971
Median age
33.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
71%
Occupied homes
5,177

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 65340?

Within the participating-agency records for Saline County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 39% below and property crime is 83% 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 65340. 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, 65340 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 10). Its 15,805 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Saline County UCR book ZIP 65340 inherits

ZIP 65340 itself is about 62 people per Census sq mi across 254 sq mi (15,805 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 65340's 15,805 residents are about 67.7% of the 2024 county reporting population (23,333), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Saline County leans on aggravated assault at 41% of reported offenses (mix index 3,263). ZIP 65340 has no separate FBI offense book.

Saline County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -24% vs 2023; property counts flat vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Saline 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 65340

Similar county violent rate (~214/100K)

Similar Census population (~15,805)

County detail: Saline 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.