ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 74873

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

489
Property rate /100K (county)
11,256
Population (ZIP)
131
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 74873 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 74873 sits within Pottawatomie County, OK, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 131 violent incidents and 489 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 74873 carries a Census-reported population of 11,256, ranking #4 of 9 ZIPs in Pottawatomie County, spread across 137.01 square miles (about 82 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Pottawatomie County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Pottawatomie County crime page linked below.

ZIP 74873 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Pottawatomie County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 74873 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
$58,357
Median age
37.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
73%
Occupied homes
3,939

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 74873?

Within the participating-agency records for Pottawatomie County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 63% below and property crime is 71% 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 74873. 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.

74873 is comparatively spread out at about 82 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.

Pottawatomie County UCR book ZIP 74873 inherits

ZIP 74873 itself is about 82 people per Census sq mi across 137 sq mi (11,256 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 74873's 11,256 residents are about 15.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (72,454), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Pottawatomie County leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses (mix index 2,946). ZIP 74873 has no separate FBI offense book.

Pottawatomie County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +48% vs 2023; property counts +10% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Pottawatomie 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 74873

Similar county violent rate (~131/100K)

Similar Census population (~11,256)

County detail: Pottawatomie County · State atlas: Oklahoma

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.