ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 79764
Ector County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 227
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 25,907
- Population (ZIP)
- 52
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 79764 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 79764 sits within Ector County, TX, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 52 violent incidents and 227 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 79764 carries a Census-reported population of 25,907, ranking #4 of 10 ZIPs in Ector County, spread across 54.53 square miles (about 475 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Ector County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Ector County crime page linked below.
ZIP 79764 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Ector County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 79764 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
- $77,249
- Median age
- 32.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 71%
- Occupied homes
- 9,097
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 79764?
Within the participating-agency records for Ector County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 85% below and property crime is 87% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 79764. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.
ZIP 79764 sits near the middle of Ector County's ZIP population ordering (#4 of 10). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Ector County UCR book ZIP 79764 inherits
ZIP 79764 itself is about 475 people per Census sq mi across 54.5 sq mi (25,907 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 79764's 25,907 residents are about 15.7% of the 2024 county reporting population (165,171), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Ector County leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses (mix index 3,166). ZIP 79764 has no separate FBI offense book.
Ector County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +18% vs 2023; property counts +67% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Ector 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 79764
Similar county violent rate (~52/100K)
- ZIP 54153, WI · 51.3/100K · Oconto County
- ZIP 55355, MN · 51.3/100K · Meeker County
- ZIP 50662, IA · 51.3/100K · Fayette County
- ZIP 43113, OH · 51.2/100K · Pickaway County
Similar Census population (~25,907)
- ZIP 21001, MD · 25,908 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 55427, MN · 25,908 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 98119, WA · 25,906 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 33703, FL · 25,900 pop · Δ7
County detail: Ector 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.