ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 53119
Waukesha County, Wisconsin: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 55
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 5,717
- Population (ZIP)
- 12
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 53119 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 53119 sits within Waukesha 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: 12 violent incidents and 55 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 53119 carries a Census-reported population of 5,717, ranking #18 of 26 ZIPs in Waukesha County, spread across 40.02 square miles (about 143 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Waukesha County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Waukesha County crime page linked below.
ZIP 53119 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Waukesha County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 53119 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
- $117,743
- Median age
- 47.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 94%
- Occupied homes
- 2,185
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 53119?
Within the participating-agency records for Waukesha County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 97% below and property crime is 97% 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 53119. 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.
53119 is comparatively spread out at about 143 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.
Waukesha County UCR book ZIP 53119 inherits
ZIP 53119 itself is about 143 people per Census sq mi across 40 sq mi (5,717 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 53119 is about 1.4% of the county reporting population (5,717 of 406,978), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Waukesha County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 271 offenses; mix index 4,909). ZIP 53119 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Waukesha County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -12% vs 2023; property counts -31% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Waukesha 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 53119
Similar county violent rate (~12/100K)
- ZIP 44280, OH · 12.1/100K · Medina County
- ZIP 46989, IN · 12/100K · Grant County
- ZIP 58075, ND · 12.1/100K · Richland County
- ZIP 51442, IA · 12.1/100K · Crawford County
Similar Census population (~5,717)
- ZIP 33070, FL · 5,717 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 39483, MS · 5,717 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 60942, IL · 5,717 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 84624, UT · 5,717 pop · Δ0
County detail: Waukesha 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.