ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 54738
Eau Claire County, Wisconsin: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 3,734
- Population (ZIP)
- 5
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 94
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 54738 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 54738 sits within Eau Claire County, WI, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.
With 3,734 residents, ZIP 54738 is among the smaller ZIPs in Eau Claire County (#6 of 7 by population), spread across 98.58 square miles (38/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Eau Claire County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Eau Claire County crime page linked below.
ZIP 54738 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Eau Claire County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 54738 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
- $85,179
- Median age
- 38.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 73%
- Occupied homes
- 1,296
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 54738 settlement vs Eau Claire County
ZIP 54738 itself is about 38 people per Census sq mi across 98.6 sq mi (3,734 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 54738 accounts for roughly 3.5% of the county reporting population (3,734 of 105,710).
Eau Claire County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 104 offenses; mix index 4,920). ZIP 54738 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 54738
Similar county violent rate (~5/100K)
- ZIP 14025, NY · 4.7/100K · Erie County
- ZIP 30106, GA · 4.7/100K · Cobb County
- ZIP 41537, KY · 4.6/100K · Letcher County
- ZIP 44882, OH · 4.6/100K · Wyandot County
Similar Census population (~3,734)
- ZIP 45760, OH · 3,734 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 35563, AL · 3,733 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 76849, TX · 3,733 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 08735, NJ · 3,732 pop · Δ2
County detail: Eau Claire 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.