What is the crime rate for ZIP code 74842?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code, and for Pontotoc County, OK (the county containing ZIP 74842) agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the UCR Program. The county figures shown cover only the agencies that submitted, so no meaningful crime rate can be stated for this area. Low reported counts here indicate missing reports, not an absence of crime.

What county is ZIP code 74842 in?

ZIP code 74842 is located in Pontotoc County, OK.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 74842

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

202
Population (ZIP): 0
Violent rate /100K (county): 134
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 74842 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 74842 sits within Pontotoc County, OK, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.

With 202 residents, ZIP 74842 is among the smaller ZIPs in Pontotoc County (#7 of 7 by population), spread across 13.61 square miles (15/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Pontotoc County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Pontotoc County crime page linked below.

ZIP 74842 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Pontotoc County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 74842 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: $56,042
Median age: 45.4 years
Owner-occupied homes: 76%
Occupied homes: 95

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

ZIP 74842 settlement vs Pontotoc County

ZIP 74842 itself is about 15 people per Census sq mi across 13.6 sq mi (202 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 74842 is about 0.5% of the county reporting population (202 of 38,065), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Pontotoc County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 51 offenses; mix index 4,325). ZIP 74842 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.

Read with ZIP 74842

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.