What is the crime rate for ZIP code 79770?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code. ZIP 79770 is located in Reeves County, TX, which reported a violent-crime rate of 81 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 79770 in?

ZIP code 79770 is located in Reeves County, TX.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 79770

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,329
Property rate /100K (county): 81
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 79770 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 79770 sits within Reeves 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.

Reeves County reported a violent-crime rate of 81 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 1,329 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 12 reported violent incidents across a county population of 14,748, 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 79770 shows a Census-reported population of zero, consistent with a non-residential ZIP (a PO-box-only, business-only, or otherwise unpopulated postal code). For a full breakdown of Reeves County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Reeves County crime page linked below.

ZIP 79770 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Reeves County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

Reeves County UCR book ZIP 79770 inherits

ZIP 79770 itself is about 0 people per Census sq mi across 70.5 sq mi (0 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 79770 is about 0% of the county reporting population (0 of 14,748), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Reeves County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 208 offenses; mix index 5,435). ZIP 79770 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Reeves County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +46% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Reeves County offense mix (2024)

Larceny-Theft 149 offenses (72%) Motor Vehicle Theft 30 offenses (14%) Burglary 17 offenses (8%) Aggravated Assault 11 offenses (5%) Rape 1 offenses (0%)

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 79770

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.