What is the crime rate for ZIP code 46778?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code. ZIP 46778 is located in Wells County, IN, which reported a violent-crime rate of 28 per 100,000 residents in 2024. This is the county's rate, the closest official FBI UCR figure available for this ZIP code. That figure is based on a small reported count and should be treated as a data point, not a precise ranking.

What county is ZIP code 46778 in?

ZIP code 46778 is located in Wells County, IN.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 46778

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

28
Property rate /100K (county): 103
Population (ZIP): 28
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 46778 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 46778 sits within Wells County, IN. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Wells County reported a violent-crime rate of 28 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 28 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 8 reported violent incidents across a county population of 28,180, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

With 103 residents, ZIP 46778 is among the smaller ZIPs in Wells County (#10 of 10 by population), spread across 2.59 square miles (40/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Wells County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Wells County crime page linked below.

ZIP 46778 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Wells County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 46778 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: $34,032
Median age: 53.8 years
Owner-occupied homes: 100%
Occupied homes: 60

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

Wells County UCR book ZIP 46778 inherits

ZIP 46778 itself is about 40 people per Census sq mi across 2.6 sq mi (103 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 46778 is about 0.4% of the county reporting population (103 of 28,180), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Wells County keeps 6 active offense types diversified (mix index 1,953); larceny-theft still leads at 25%. ZIP 46778 inherits the county book.

Wells County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -11% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Wells County offense mix (2024)

Larceny-Theft 4 offenses (27%) Aggravated Assault 4 offenses (27%) Motor Vehicle Theft 3 offenses (20%) Robbery 2 offenses (13%) Rape 2 offenses (13%)

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.

Read with ZIP 46778

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.