ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 76259
Denton County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 5,611
- Population (ZIP)
- 8
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 53
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 76259 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 76259 sits within Denton County, TX, 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 5,611 residents, ZIP 76259 is among the smaller ZIPs in Denton County (#26 of 27 by population), spread across 51.18 square miles (110/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Denton County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Denton County crime page linked below.
ZIP 76259 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Denton County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 76259 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
- $82,041
- Median age
- 37.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 76%
- Occupied homes
- 2,156
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 76259 settlement vs Denton County
ZIP 76259 itself is about 110 people per Census sq mi across 51.2 sq mi (5,611 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 76259 is about 0.6% of the county reporting population (5,611 of 906,422), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Denton County leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses (mix index 3,942). ZIP 76259 has no separate FBI offense book.
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 76259
Similar county violent rate (~8/100K)
- ZIP 62675, IL · 8.1/100K · Menard County
- ZIP 12582, NY · 8.1/100K · Dutchess County
- ZIP 24963, WV · 8.1/100K · Monroe County
- ZIP 51246, IA · 8.4/100K · Lyon County
Similar Census population (~5,611)
- ZIP 18066, PA · 5,612 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 60954, IL · 5,612 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 48471, MI · 5,613 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 53805, WI · 5,613 pop · Δ2
County detail: Denton County · State atlas: Texas
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.