ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 79731

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

963
Property rate /100K (county)
4,387
Population (ZIP)
86
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 79731 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 79731 sits within Crane 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.

Crane County reported a violent-crime rate of 86 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 963 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 4 reported violent incidents across a county population of 4,675, 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 79731 itself has a Census-reported population of 4,387, spread across 441.54 square miles (about 10 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Crane County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Crane County crime page linked below.

ZIP 79731 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Crane County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 79731 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
$71,818
Median age
40.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
85%
Occupied homes
1,614

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

Crane County UCR book ZIP 79731 inherits

ZIP 79731 itself is about 10 people per Census sq mi across 441.5 sq mi (4,387 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 79731's 4,387 residents are about 93.8% of the 2024 county reporting population (4,675), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Crane County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (84% of 49 offenses; mix index 7,110). ZIP 79731 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Crane County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +67% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Crane 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 79731

Similar Census population (~4,387)

County detail: Crane 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.