ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 79789

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

732
Property rate /100K (county)
1,021
Population (ZIP)
39
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 79789 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 79789 sits within Winkler 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.

Winkler County reported a violent-crime rate of 39 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 732 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 3 reported violent incidents across a county population of 7,791, 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 1,021 residents, ZIP 79789 is among the smaller ZIPs in Winkler County (#2 of 2 by population), spread across 34.01 square miles (30/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Winkler County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Winkler County crime page linked below.

ZIP 79789 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Winkler County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 79789 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
$111,875
Median age
32.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
85%
Occupied homes
349

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

Winkler County UCR book ZIP 79789 inherits

ZIP 79789 itself is about 30 people per Census sq mi across 34 sq mi (1,021 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 79789 accounts for roughly 13.1% of the county reporting population (1,021 of 7,791).

Winkler County leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses (mix index 3,750). ZIP 79789 has no separate FBI offense book.

Winkler County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +6% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Winkler 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 79789

Similar Census population (~1,021)

County detail: Winkler 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.