What is the crime rate for ZIP code 74738?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code. ZIP 74738 is located in Choctaw County, OK, which reported a violent-crime rate of 127 per 100,000 residents in 2024. This is the county's rate, the closest official FBI UCR figure available for this ZIP code. That figure is based on a small reported count and should be treated as a data point, not a precise ranking.

What county is ZIP code 74738 in?

ZIP code 74738 is located in Choctaw County, OK.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 74738

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

415
Property rate /100K (county): 439
Population (ZIP): 127
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 74738 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 74738 sits within Choctaw County, OK. 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.

Choctaw County reported a violent-crime rate of 127 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 415 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 18 reported violent incidents across a county population of 14,204, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

With 439 residents, ZIP 74738 is among the smaller ZIPs in Choctaw County (#6 of 7 by population), spread across 28.65 square miles (15/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Choctaw County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Choctaw County crime page linked below.

ZIP 74738 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Choctaw County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 74738 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: $48,125
Median age: 44.8 years
Owner-occupied homes: 82%
Occupied homes: 170

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

Choctaw County UCR book ZIP 74738 inherits

ZIP 74738 itself is about 15 people per Census sq mi across 28.7 sq mi (439 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 74738 accounts for roughly 3.1% of the county reporting population (439 of 14,204).

Choctaw County keeps 8 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,403); burglary still leads at 31%. ZIP 74738 inherits the county book.

Choctaw County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -34% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Choctaw County offense mix (2024)

Burglary 24 offenses (32%) Larceny-Theft 22 offenses (29%) Motor Vehicle Theft 13 offenses (17%) Aggravated Assault 13 offenses (17%) Arson 4 offenses (5%)

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.

Read with ZIP 74738

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.