ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 46186
Hancock County, Indiana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 148
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 1,869
- Population (ZIP)
- 58
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 46186 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 46186 sits within Hancock 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: 58 violent incidents and 148 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 46186 carries a Census-reported population of 1,869, ranking #5 of 7 ZIPs in Hancock County, spread across 27.91 square miles (about 67 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Hancock County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Hancock County crime page linked below.
ZIP 46186 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Hancock County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 46186 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
- $58,321
- Median age
- 54.0 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 94%
- Occupied homes
- 803
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 46186?
Within the participating-agency records for Hancock County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 84% below and property crime is 91% 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 46186. 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.
46186 is comparatively spread out at about 67 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.
Hancock County UCR book ZIP 46186 inherits
ZIP 46186 itself is about 67 people per Census sq mi across 27.9 sq mi (1,869 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 46186 accounts for roughly 2.3% of the county reporting population (1,869 of 79,840).
Hancock County leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses (mix index 2,846). ZIP 46186 has no separate FBI offense book.
Hancock County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -16% vs 2023; property counts -36% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Hancock 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 46186
Similar county violent rate (~58/100K)
- ZIP 75931, TX · 57.6/100K · Jasper County
- ZIP 37031, TN · 57.6/100K · Sumner County
- ZIP 97347, OR · 57.6/100K · Yamhill County
- ZIP 48464, MI · 57.5/100K · Lapeer County
Similar Census population (~1,869)
- ZIP 12928, NY · 1,869 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 38621, MS · 1,869 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 50058, IA · 1,869 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 52151, IA · 1,869 pop · Δ0
County detail: Hancock 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.