ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 65686

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

862
Property rate /100K (county)
4,709
Population (ZIP)
229
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 65686 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 65686 sits within Stone County, MO, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Stone County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 229 violent and 862 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 65686 carries a Census-reported population of 4,709, ranking #3 of 9 ZIPs in Stone County, spread across 9.78 square miles (about 481 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Stone County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Stone County crime page linked below.

ZIP 65686 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Stone County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 65686 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
$54,691
Median age
64.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
82%
Occupied homes
2,228

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 65686?

Within the participating-agency records for Stone County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 35% below and property crime is 50% 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 65686. 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 65686 sits near the middle of Stone County's ZIP population ordering (#3 of 9). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Stone County UCR book ZIP 65686 inherits

ZIP 65686 itself is about 481 people per Census sq mi across 9.8 sq mi (4,709 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 65686's 4,709 residents are about 15.2% of the 2024 county reporting population (31,076), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Stone County leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses (mix index 3,030). ZIP 65686 has no separate FBI offense book.

Stone County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +78% vs 2023; property counts -12% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Stone 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 65686

Similar county violent rate (~229/100K)

Similar Census population (~4,709)

County detail: Stone 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.