ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 46556
St. Joseph County, Indiana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 236
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 7,858
- Population (ZIP)
- 40
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 46556 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 46556 sits within St. Joseph 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: 40 violent incidents and 236 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 46556 carries a Census-reported population of 7,858, ranking #12 of 20 ZIPs in St. Joseph County, spread across 1.65 square miles (about 4,762 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of St. Joseph County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the St. Joseph County crime page linked below.
ZIP 46556 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from St. Joseph County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 46556 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 age
- 20.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 4%
- Occupied homes
- 233
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 46556?
Within the participating-agency records for St. Joseph County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 89% below and property crime is 86% 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 46556. 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.
46556 is a densely settled part of the county at about 4,762 people per square mile. Density is not a crime predictor on its own; it only shows why a county-wide average can conceal a very different local setting inside this ZIP.
St. Joseph County UCR book ZIP 46556 inherits
ZIP 46556 itself is about 4,762 people per Census sq mi across 1.7 sq mi (7,858 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 46556 accounts for roughly 2.9% of the county reporting population (7,858 of 272,912).
St. Joseph County leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses (mix index 3,817). ZIP 46556 has no separate FBI offense book.
St. Joseph County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -8% vs 2023; property counts -19% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
St. Joseph 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 46556
Similar county violent rate (~40/100K)
- ZIP 65023, MO · 40.1/100K · Cole County
- ZIP 29449, SC · 40.2/100K · Charleston County
- ZIP 54451, WI · 40.2/100K · Taylor County
- ZIP 43240, OH · 39.7/100K · Delaware County
Similar Census population (~7,858)
- ZIP 08066, NJ · 7,859 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 08515, NJ · 7,857 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 75783, TX · 7,854 pop · Δ4
- ZIP 12307, NY · 7,863 pop · Δ5
County detail: St. Joseph 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.