ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 46902

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

120
Property rate /100K (county)
36,807
Population (ZIP)
49
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 46902 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 46902 sits within Howard 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: 49 violent incidents and 120 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 46902 carries a Census-reported population of 36,807, ranking #2 of 6 ZIPs in Howard County, spread across 50.71 square miles (about 726 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Howard County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Howard County crime page linked below.

ZIP 46902 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Howard County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 46902 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
$58,888
Median age
39.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
66%
Occupied homes
15,803

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 46902?

Within the participating-agency records for Howard County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 86% below and property crime is 93% 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 46902. 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.

ZIP 46902 sits near the middle of Howard County's ZIP population ordering (#2 of 6). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Howard County UCR book ZIP 46902 inherits

ZIP 46902 itself is about 726 people per Census sq mi across 50.7 sq mi (36,807 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 46902's 36,807 residents are about 44% of the 2024 county reporting population (83,658), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Howard County leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses (mix index 3,037). ZIP 46902 has no separate FBI offense book.

Howard County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +8% vs 2023; property counts +54% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Howard 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 46902

Similar county violent rate (~49/100K)

Similar Census population (~36,807)

County detail: Howard 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.