ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 46176

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

211
Property rate /100K (county)
28,727
Population (ZIP)
173
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 46176 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 46176 sits within Shelby County, IN, 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: 173 violent incidents and 211 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 46176 is the largest ZIP in Shelby County by population, 28,727 residents (#1 of 9 county ZIPs), across 169.47 square miles (170/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Shelby County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Shelby County crime page linked below.

ZIP 46176 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Shelby County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 46176 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
$62,222
Median age
38.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
65%
Occupied homes
11,717

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 46176?

Within the participating-agency records for Shelby County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 51% below and property crime is 88% 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 46176. 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.

Within the county, 46176 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 9). Its 28,727 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Shelby County UCR book ZIP 46176 inherits

ZIP 46176 itself is about 170 people per Census sq mi across 169.5 sq mi (28,727 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 46176's 28,727 residents are about 63.8% of the 2024 county reporting population (45,055), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Shelby County leans on aggravated assault at 42% of reported offenses (mix index 3,054). ZIP 46176 has no separate FBI offense book.

Shelby County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +200% vs 2023; property counts -30% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Shelby 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 46176

Similar county violent rate (~173/100K)

Similar Census population (~28,727)

County detail: Shelby County · State atlas: Indiana

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.