ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 54974

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

73
Property rate /100K (county)
1,566
Population (ZIP)
17
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 54974 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 54974 sits within Fond du Lac 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.

Fond du Lac County reported a violent-crime rate of 17 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 73 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 18 reported violent incidents across a county population of 104,154, 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 54974 carries a Census-reported population of 1,566, ranking #12 of 15 ZIPs in Fond du Lac County, spread across 26.36 square miles (about 59 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Fond du Lac County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Fond du Lac County crime page linked below.

ZIP 54974 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Fond du Lac County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 54974 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
$85,625
Median age
51.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
91%
Occupied homes
610

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

Fond du Lac County UCR book ZIP 54974 inherits

ZIP 54974 itself is about 59 people per Census sq mi across 26.4 sq mi (1,566 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 54974 is about 1.5% of the county reporting population (1,566 of 104,154), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Fond du Lac County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 94 offenses; mix index 4,212). ZIP 54974 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Fond du Lac County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -36% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Fond du Lac 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 54974

Similar county violent rate (~17/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,566)

County detail: Fond du Lac 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.