ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 54909

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

108
Property rate /100K (county)
1,988
Population (ZIP)
65
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 54909 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 54909 sits within Portage 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: 65 violent incidents and 108 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 54909 carries a Census-reported population of 1,988, ranking #8 of 11 ZIPs in Portage County, spread across 96.32 square miles (about 21 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Portage County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Portage County crime page linked below.

ZIP 54909 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Portage County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 54909 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
$73,500
Median age
43.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
85%
Occupied homes
802

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 54909?

Within the participating-agency records for Portage County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 82% below and property crime is 94% 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 54909. 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.

54909 is comparatively spread out at about 21 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

Portage County UCR book ZIP 54909 inherits

ZIP 54909 itself is about 21 people per Census sq mi across 96.3 sq mi (1,988 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 54909 accounts for roughly 2.8% of the county reporting population (1,988 of 70,377).

Portage County leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 3,083). ZIP 54909 has no separate FBI offense book.

Portage County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +18% vs 2023; property counts -42% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Portage 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 54909

Similar county violent rate (~65/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,988)

County detail: Portage 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.