ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 53579

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

87
Property rate /100K (county)
1,736
Population (ZIP)
50
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 53579 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 53579 sits within Dodge 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: 50 violent incidents and 87 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 53579 carries a Census-reported population of 1,736, ranking #13 of 20 ZIPs in Dodge County, spread across 39.9 square miles (about 44 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Dodge County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Dodge County crime page linked below.

ZIP 53579 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Dodge County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 53579 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
$72,688
Median age
40.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
76%
Occupied homes
627

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 53579?

Within the participating-agency records for Dodge County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 86% below and property crime is 95% 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 53579. 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.

53579 is comparatively spread out at about 44 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.

Dodge County UCR book ZIP 53579 inherits

ZIP 53579 itself is about 44 people per Census sq mi across 39.9 sq mi (1,736 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 53579 is about 1.9% of the county reporting population (1,736 of 89,396), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Dodge County leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses (mix index 3,347). ZIP 53579 has no separate FBI offense book.

Dodge County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +2% vs 2023; property counts -32% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Dodge 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 53579

Similar county violent rate (~50/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,736)

County detail: Dodge 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.