ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 76261
Montague County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 271
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 152
- Population (ZIP)
- 95
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 76261 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 76261 sits within Montague 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.
Montague County reported a violent-crime rate of 95 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 271 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 19 reported violent incidents across a county population of 19,965, 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 152 residents, ZIP 76261 is among the smaller ZIPs in Montague County (#7 of 7 by population), spread across 73.8 square miles (2/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Montague County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Montague County crime page linked below.
ZIP 76261 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Montague County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 76261 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
- $58,571
- Median age
- 55.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 66%
- Occupied homes
- 76
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
Montague County UCR book ZIP 76261 inherits
ZIP 76261 itself is about 2 people per Census sq mi across 73.8 sq mi (152 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 76261 is about 0.8% of the county reporting population (152 of 19,965), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Montague County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 3,378). ZIP 76261 has no separate FBI offense book.
Montague County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -26% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Montague 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.
Read with ZIP 76261
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.