ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 65556
Pulaski County, Missouri: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 298
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 5,100
- Population (ZIP)
- 204
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 65556 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 65556 sits within Pulaski County, MO, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Pulaski County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 204 violent and 298 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
ZIP 65556 carries a Census-reported population of 5,100, ranking #4 of 8 ZIPs in Pulaski County, spread across 222.98 square miles (about 23 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Pulaski County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Pulaski County crime page linked below.
ZIP 65556 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Pulaski County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 65556 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
- $43,715
- Median age
- 43.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 78%
- Occupied homes
- 2,063
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 65556?
Within the participating-agency records for Pulaski County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 42% 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 65556. 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.
65556 is comparatively spread out at about 23 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.
Pulaski County UCR book ZIP 65556 inherits
ZIP 65556 itself is about 23 people per Census sq mi across 223 sq mi (5,100 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 65556 accounts for roughly 9.5% of the county reporting population (5,100 of 53,955).
Pulaski County leans on aggravated assault at 34% of reported offenses (mix index 2,565). ZIP 65556 has no separate FBI offense book.
Pulaski County 2024 vs 2020: violent counts +116% vs 2020; property counts -9% vs 2020. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Pulaski 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 65556
Similar county violent rate (~204/100K)
- ZIP 38824, MS · 203.9/100K · Prentiss County
- ZIP 36277, AL · 204.4/100K · Calhoun County
- ZIP 56633, MN · 202.9/100K · Cass County
- ZIP 70776, LA · 205/100K · Iberville County
Similar Census population (~5,100)
- ZIP 40831, KY · 5,100 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 98576, WA · 5,099 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 29696, SC · 5,102 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 28651, NC · 5,103 pop · Δ3
County detail: Pulaski 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.