ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 54845
Burnett County, Wisconsin: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 1,107
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 129
- Population (ZIP)
- 200
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 54845 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 54845 sits within Burnett County, WI, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Burnett County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 200 violent and 1,107 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
With 129 residents, ZIP 54845 is among the smaller ZIPs in Burnett County (#6 of 6 by population), spread across 5.22 square miles (25/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Burnett County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Burnett County crime page linked below.
ZIP 54845 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Burnett County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 54845 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
- $43,125
- Median age
- 50.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 87%
- Occupied homes
- 47
- Median home value
- $99,300
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 5.8%
- Poverty rate
- 36.4%
- Unemployment rate
- 8.8%
ZIP 54845's median home value of $99,300 is lower than 98% of the 725 WI ZIPs with a reported value, among the most affordable in the state by this measure.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 54845?
Within the participating-agency records for Burnett County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 43% below and property crime is 35% 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 54845. 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, 54845 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#6 of 6). 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.
Burnett County UCR book ZIP 54845 inherits
ZIP 54845 itself is about 25 people per Census sq mi across 5.2 sq mi (129 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 54845 is about 0.8% of the county reporting population (129 of 16,526), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Burnett County leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses (mix index 3,619). ZIP 54845 has no separate FBI offense book.
Burnett County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +3% vs 2023; property counts +20% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Burnett 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.
Read with ZIP 54845
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.