ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 53517
Dane County, Wisconsin: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 1,821
- Population (ZIP)
- 9
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 77
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 53517 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 53517 sits within Dane County, WI, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.
With 1,821 residents, ZIP 53517 is among the smaller ZIPs in Dane County (#33 of 35 by population), spread across 45.86 square miles (40/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Dane County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Dane County crime page linked below.
ZIP 53517 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Dane County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 53517 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
- $75,833
- Median age
- 43.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 74%
- Occupied homes
- 750
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 53517 settlement vs Dane County
ZIP 53517 itself is about 40 people per Census sq mi across 45.9 sq mi (1,821 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 53517 is about 0.3% of the county reporting population (1,821 of 561,504), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Dane County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 486 offenses; mix index 5,073). ZIP 53517 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 53517
Similar county violent rate (~9/100K)
- ZIP 43504, OH · 9.3/100K · Lucas County
- ZIP 69001, NE · 9.3/100K · Red Willow County
- ZIP 46402, IN · 9.4/100K · Lake County
- ZIP 73762, OK · 9.1/100K · Canadian County
Similar Census population (~1,821)
- ZIP 05061, VT · 1,821 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 30149, GA · 1,821 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 39108, MS · 1,821 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 04971, ME · 1,822 pop · Δ1
County detail: Dane 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.