ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 54407

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

108
Property rate /100K (county)
1,363
Population (ZIP)
65
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 54407 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 54407 sits within Portage 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: 65 violent incidents and 108 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

With 1,363 residents, ZIP 54407 is among the smaller ZIPs in Portage County (#10 of 11 by population), spread across 46.7 square miles (29/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Portage County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Portage County crime page linked below.

ZIP 54407 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Portage County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 54407 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
$91,719
Median age
46.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
90%
Occupied homes
540

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 54407?

Within the participating-agency records for Portage County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 82% 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 54407. 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, 54407 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#10 of 11). 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.

Portage County UCR book ZIP 54407 inherits

ZIP 54407 itself is about 29 people per Census sq mi across 46.7 sq mi (1,363 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 54407 is about 1.9% of the county reporting population (1,363 of 70,377), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Portage County leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 3,083). ZIP 54407 has no separate FBI offense book.

Portage County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +18% vs 2023; property counts -42% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Portage 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 54407

Similar county violent rate (~65/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,363)

County detail: Portage 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.