What is the crime rate for ZIP code 75977?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code. ZIP 75977 is located in Newton County, TX, which reported a violent-crime rate of 106 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 75977 in?

ZIP code 75977 is located in Newton County, TX.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 75977

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

385
Property rate /100K (county): 461
Population (ZIP): 106
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 75977 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 75977 sits within Newton County, TX. 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.

Newton County reported a violent-crime rate of 106 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 385 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 13 reported violent incidents across a county population of 12,217, 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 461 residents, ZIP 75977 is among the smaller ZIPs in Newton County (#6 of 6 by population), spread across 168.7 square miles (3/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Newton County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Newton County crime page linked below.

ZIP 75977 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Newton County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 75977 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: $22,273
Median age: 42.2 years
Owner-occupied homes: 78%
Occupied homes: 214

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

Newton County UCR book ZIP 75977 inherits

ZIP 75977 itself is about 3 people per Census sq mi across 168.7 sq mi (461 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 75977 accounts for roughly 3.8% of the county reporting population (461 of 12,217).

Newton County leans on larceny-theft at 42% of reported offenses (mix index 2,683). ZIP 75977 has no separate FBI offense book.

Newton County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +74% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Newton County offense mix (2024)

Larceny-Theft 25 offenses (42%) Burglary 13 offenses (22%) Motor Vehicle Theft 9 offenses (15%) Aggravated Assault 9 offenses (15%) Rape 3 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 75977

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.