ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 53936

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

310
Property rate /100K (county)
1,285
Population (ZIP)
237
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 53936 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 53936 sits within Adams County, WI, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Adams County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 237 violent and 310 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

With 1,285 residents, ZIP 53936 is among the smaller ZIPs in Adams County (#6 of 6 by population), spread across 64.28 square miles (20/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Adams County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Adams County crime page linked below.

ZIP 53936 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Adams County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 53936 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
$55,729
Median age
56.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
91%
Occupied homes
597

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 53936?

Within the participating-agency records for Adams County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 33% below and property crime is 82% 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 53936. 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.

Within the county, 53936 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#6 of 6). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.

Adams County UCR book ZIP 53936 inherits

ZIP 53936 itself is about 20 people per Census sq mi across 64.3 sq mi (1,285 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 53936 accounts for roughly 6.2% of the county reporting population (1,285 of 20,654).

Adams County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 3,288). ZIP 53936 has no separate FBI offense book.

Adams County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +172% vs 2023; property counts -27% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Adams 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 53936

Similar county violent rate (~237/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,285)

County detail: Adams 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.