ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 54020

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

229
Property rate /100K (county)
7,880
Population (ZIP)
109
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 54020 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 54020 sits within Polk 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: 109 violent incidents and 229 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 54020 is the largest ZIP in Polk County by population, 7,880 residents (#1 of 14 county ZIPs), across 73.69 square miles (107/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Polk County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Polk County crime page linked below.

ZIP 54020 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Polk County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 54020 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
$80,353
Median age
44.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
75%
Occupied homes
3,250

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 54020?

Within the participating-agency records for Polk County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 69% below and property crime is 87% 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 54020. 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, 54020 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 14). Its 7,880 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Polk County UCR book ZIP 54020 inherits

ZIP 54020 itself is about 107 people per Census sq mi across 73.7 sq mi (7,880 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 54020's 7,880 residents are about 17.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (44,977), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Polk County leans on larceny-theft at 36% of reported offenses (mix index 2,715). ZIP 54020 has no separate FBI offense book.

Polk County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +63% vs 2023; property counts -25% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Polk 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 54020

Similar county violent rate (~109/100K)

Similar Census population (~7,880)

County detail: Polk 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.