ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 46342

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

32,049
Population (ZIP)
9
Violent rate /100K (county)
35
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 46342 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 46342 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 46342 is the largest ZIP in Lake County by population, 32,049 residents (#3 of 27 county ZIPs), across 35.04 square miles (915/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Lake County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Lake County crime page linked below.

ZIP 46342 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 46342 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
$68,808
Median age
39.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
76%
Occupied homes
12,777

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

ZIP 46342 settlement vs Lake County

ZIP 46342 itself is about 915 people per Census sq mi across 35 sq mi (32,049 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 46342 accounts for roughly 6.4% of the county reporting population (32,049 of 498,700).

Lake County leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses (mix index 3,681). ZIP 46342 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 46342

Similar county violent rate (~9/100K)

Similar Census population (~32,049)

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.