ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 54220
Manitowoc County, Wisconsin: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 98
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 40,562
- Population (ZIP)
- 39
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 54220 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 54220 sits within Manitowoc 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: 39 violent incidents and 98 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 54220 is the largest ZIP in Manitowoc County by population, 40,562 residents (#1 of 14 county ZIPs), across 98.75 square miles (411/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Manitowoc County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Manitowoc County crime page linked below.
ZIP 54220 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Manitowoc County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 54220 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
- $62,813
- Median age
- 44.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 69%
- Occupied homes
- 17,248
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 54220?
Within the participating-agency records for Manitowoc County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 89% below and property crime is 94% 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 54220. 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, 54220 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 14). Its 40,562 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.
Manitowoc County UCR book ZIP 54220 inherits
ZIP 54220 itself is about 411 people per Census sq mi across 98.8 sq mi (40,562 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 54220's 40,562 residents are about 49.9% of the 2024 county reporting population (81,359), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Manitowoc County leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses (mix index 3,810). ZIP 54220 has no separate FBI offense book.
Manitowoc County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +28% vs 2023; property counts -12% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Manitowoc 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 54220
Similar county violent rate (~39/100K)
- ZIP 44691, OH · 39.4/100K · Wayne County
- ZIP 25550, WV · 39.3/100K · Mason County
- ZIP 30528, GA · 39.3/100K · White County
- ZIP 73750, OK · 39.5/100K · Kingfisher County
Similar Census population (~40,562)
- ZIP 08724, NJ · 40,560 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 38127, TN · 40,565 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 28079, NC · 40,539 pop · Δ23
- ZIP 18017, PA · 40,587 pop · Δ25
County detail: Manitowoc 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.