What is the crime rate for ZIP code 47833?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code. ZIP 47833 is located in Clay County, IN, which reported a violent-crime rate of 53 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 47833 in?

ZIP code 47833 is located in Clay County, IN.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 47833

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

151
Property rate /100K (county): 964
Population (ZIP): 53
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 47833 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 47833 sits within Clay 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.

Clay County reported a violent-crime rate of 53 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 151 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 14 reported violent incidents across a county population of 26,466, 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.

ZIP 47833 carries a Census-reported population of 964, ranking #5 of 10 ZIPs in Clay County, spread across 39.8 square miles (about 24 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Clay County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Clay County crime page linked below.

ZIP 47833 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Clay County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 47833 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: $94,559
Median age: 49.7 years
Owner-occupied homes: 84%
Occupied homes: 374

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

Clay County UCR book ZIP 47833 inherits

ZIP 47833 itself is about 24 people per Census sq mi across 39.8 sq mi (964 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 47833 accounts for roughly 3.6% of the county reporting population (964 of 26,466).

Clay County leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 2,774). ZIP 47833 has no separate FBI offense book.

Clay County offense mix (2024)

Larceny-Theft 23 offenses (43%) Aggravated Assault 11 offenses (20%) Burglary 10 offenses (19%) Motor Vehicle Theft 7 offenses (13%) Rape 3 offenses (6%)

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 47833

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.