ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 54442
Lincoln County, Wisconsin: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 187
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 1,584
- Population (ZIP)
- 106
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 54442 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 54442 sits within Lincoln 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: 106 violent incidents and 187 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
With 1,584 residents, ZIP 54442 is among the smaller ZIPs in Lincoln County (#4 of 4 by population), spread across 75.54 square miles (21/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Lincoln County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Lincoln County crime page linked below.
ZIP 54442 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Lincoln County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 54442 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
- $62,500
- Median age
- 50.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 85%
- Occupied homes
- 586
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 54442?
Within the participating-agency records for Lincoln County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 70% below and property crime is 89% 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 54442. 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, 54442 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#4 of 4). 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.
Lincoln County UCR book ZIP 54442 inherits
ZIP 54442 itself is about 21 people per Census sq mi across 75.5 sq mi (1,584 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 54442 accounts for roughly 5.6% of the county reporting population (1,584 of 28,415).
Lincoln County leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses (mix index 3,012). ZIP 54442 has no separate FBI offense book.
Lincoln County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -49% vs 2023; property counts -50% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Lincoln 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 54442
Similar county violent rate (~106/100K)
- ZIP 38231, TN · 105.6/100K · Henry County
- ZIP 31787, GA · 105.5/100K · Lee County
- ZIP 50621, IA · 105.4/100K · Grundy County
- ZIP 24069, VA · 105.8/100K · Pittsylvania County
Similar Census population (~1,584)
- ZIP 04732, ME · 1,584 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 12575, NY · 1,584 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 41727, KY · 1,584 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 56433, MN · 1,584 pop · Δ0
County detail: Lincoln 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.