ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 53959

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

260
Property rate /100K (county)
14,294
Population (ZIP)
35
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 53959 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 53959 sits within Sauk County, WI. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Sauk County reported a violent-crime rate of 35 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 260 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 23 reported violent incidents across a county population of 65,763, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

ZIP 53959 is the largest ZIP in Sauk County by population, 14,294 residents (#2 of 14 county ZIPs), across 111.61 square miles (128/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Sauk County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Sauk County crime page linked below.

ZIP 53959 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Sauk County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 53959 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
$71,897
Median age
38.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
72%
Occupied homes
5,566

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

Sauk County UCR book ZIP 53959 inherits

ZIP 53959 itself is about 128 people per Census sq mi across 111.6 sq mi (14,294 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 53959's 14,294 residents are about 21.7% of the 2024 county reporting population (65,763), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Sauk County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 194 offenses; mix index 5,093). ZIP 53959 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Sauk County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +1% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Sauk 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 53959

Similar county violent rate (~35/100K)

Similar Census population (~14,294)

County detail: Sauk 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.