ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 53961
Sauk County, Wisconsin: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 260
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 922
- Population (ZIP)
- 35
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 53961 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 53961 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.
With 922 residents, ZIP 53961 is among the smaller ZIPs in Sauk County (#12 of 14 by population), spread across 23.57 square miles (39/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 53961 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 53961 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
- $76,544
- Median age
- 40.9 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 87%
- Occupied homes
- 389
- Median home value
- $198,100
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 14.3%
- Poverty rate
- 6.1%
- Unemployment rate
- 1.4%
ZIP 53961's median home value of $198,100 sits higher than 50% of the 725 WI ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
Sauk County UCR book ZIP 53961 inherits
ZIP 53961 itself is about 39 people per Census sq mi across 23.6 sq mi (922 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 53961 is about 1.4% of the county reporting population (922 of 65,763), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Sauk County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 194 offenses; mix index 5,093). ZIP 53961 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.
Read with ZIP 53961
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.