ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 54642

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

530
Property rate /100K (county)
2,354
Population (ZIP)
62
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 54642 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 54642 sits within Jackson 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.

Jackson County reported a violent-crime rate of 62 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 530 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 13 reported violent incidents across a county population of 21,145, 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 54642 carries a Census-reported population of 2,354, ranking #2 of 7 ZIPs in Jackson County, spread across 92.21 square miles (about 26 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Jackson County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Jackson County crime page linked below.

ZIP 54642 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Jackson County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 54642 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
$69,472
Median age
35.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
85%
Occupied homes
820

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

Jackson County UCR book ZIP 54642 inherits

ZIP 54642 itself is about 26 people per Census sq mi across 92.2 sq mi (2,354 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 54642 accounts for roughly 11.1% of the county reporting population (2,354 of 21,145).

Jackson County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 125 offenses; mix index 4,577). ZIP 54642 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

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

Jackson 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 54642

Similar county violent rate (~62/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,354)

County detail: Jackson 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.