ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 54520

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

218
Violent rate /100K (county)
3,889
Population (ZIP)
174
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 54520 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 54520 sits within Forest 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.

Forest County reported a violent-crime rate of 218 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 174 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 20 reported violent incidents across a county population of 9,179, 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.

ZIP 54520 is the largest ZIP in Forest County by population, 3,889 residents (#1 of 7 county ZIPs), across 122.79 square miles (32/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Forest County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Forest County crime page linked below.

ZIP 54520 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Forest County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 54520 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
$54,720
Median age
43.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
73%
Occupied homes
1,537

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

Forest County UCR book ZIP 54520 inherits

ZIP 54520 itself is about 32 people per Census sq mi across 122.8 sq mi (3,889 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 54520's 3,889 residents are about 42.4% of the 2024 county reporting population (9,179), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Forest County leans on aggravated assault at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 3,002). ZIP 54520 has no separate FBI offense book.

Forest County 2024 vs 2022: property counts -64% vs 2022. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Forest 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 54520

Similar Census population (~3,889)

County detail: Forest 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.