ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 46324
Lake County, Indiana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 21,703
- Population (ZIP)
- 9
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 35
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 46324 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 46324 sits within Lake County, IN, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.
ZIP 46324 carries a Census-reported population of 21,703, ranking #10 of 27 ZIPs in Lake County, spread across 4.36 square miles (about 4,978 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Lake County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Lake County crime page linked below.
ZIP 46324 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Lake County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 46324 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
- $58,158
- Median age
- 37.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 69%
- Occupied homes
- 8,677
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 46324 settlement vs Lake County
ZIP 46324 itself is about 4,978 people per Census sq mi across 4.4 sq mi (21,703 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 46324 accounts for roughly 4.4% of the county reporting population (21,703 of 498,700).
Lake County leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses (mix index 3,681). ZIP 46324 has no separate FBI offense book.
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 46324
Similar county violent rate (~9/100K)
- ZIP 64029, MO · 9.5/100K · Jackson County
- ZIP 69001, NE · 9.3/100K · Red Willow County
- ZIP 43607, OH · 9.3/100K · Lucas County
- ZIP 53597, WI · 9.3/100K · Dane County
Similar Census population (~21,703)
- ZIP 36867, AL · 21,700 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 54902, WI · 21,706 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 60473, IL · 21,695 pop · Δ8
- ZIP 95521, CA · 21,712 pop · Δ9
County detail: Lake 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.