ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 53044

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

175
Property rate /100K (county)
2,267
Population (ZIP)
35
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 53044 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 53044 sits within Sheboygan County, WI, 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: 35 violent incidents and 175 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 53044 carries a Census-reported population of 2,267, ranking #9 of 14 ZIPs in Sheboygan County, spread across 5.62 square miles (about 403 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Sheboygan County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Sheboygan County crime page linked below.

ZIP 53044 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Sheboygan County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 53044 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
$128,036
Median age
42.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
93%
Occupied homes
849

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 53044?

Within the participating-agency records for Sheboygan County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 90% below and property crime is 90% 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 53044. 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 53044 sits near the middle of Sheboygan County's ZIP population ordering (#9 of 14). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Sheboygan County UCR book ZIP 53044 inherits

ZIP 53044 itself is about 403 people per Census sq mi across 5.6 sq mi (2,267 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 53044 is about 1.9% of the county reporting population (2,267 of 118,034), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Sheboygan County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 248 offenses; mix index 4,133). ZIP 53044 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Sheboygan County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +21% vs 2023; property counts +2% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Sheboygan 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 53044

Similar county violent rate (~35/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,267)

County detail: Sheboygan County · State atlas: Wisconsin

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.