What is the crime rate for ZIP code 78159?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code. ZIP 78159 is located in Gonzales County, TX, which reported a violent-crime rate of 137 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 78159 in?

ZIP code 78159 is located in Gonzales County, TX.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 78159

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

443
Property rate /100K (county): 587
Population (ZIP): 137
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 78159 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 78159 sits within Gonzales 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.

Gonzales County reported a violent-crime rate of 137 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 443 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 27 reported violent incidents across a county population of 19,653, 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.

ZIP 78159 carries a Census-reported population of 587, ranking #5 of 9 ZIPs in Gonzales County, spread across 131.81 square miles (about 4 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Gonzales County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Gonzales County crime page linked below.

ZIP 78159 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Gonzales County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 78159 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: $32,000
Median age: 43.4 years
Owner-occupied homes: 76%
Occupied homes: 266

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

Gonzales County UCR book ZIP 78159 inherits

ZIP 78159 itself is about 4 people per Census sq mi across 131.8 sq mi (587 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 78159 accounts for roughly 3% of the county reporting population (587 of 19,653).

Gonzales County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 3,075). ZIP 78159 has no separate FBI offense book.

Gonzales County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -17% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Gonzales County offense mix (2024)

Larceny-Theft 51 offenses (45%) Burglary 29 offenses (26%) Aggravated Assault 22 offenses (19%) Motor Vehicle Theft 7 offenses (6%) Rape 4 offenses (4%)

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 78159

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.