ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 55120

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

5,194
Population (ZIP)
3
Violent rate /100K (county)
3
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 55120 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 55120 sits within Dakota County, MN, 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.

ZIP 55120 carries a Census-reported population of 5,194, ranking #15 of 19 ZIPs in Dakota County, spread across 5.41 square miles (about 960 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Dakota County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Dakota County crime page linked below.

ZIP 55120 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Dakota County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 55120 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
$105,125
Median age
41.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
65%
Occupied homes
2,106

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

ZIP 55120 settlement vs Dakota County

ZIP 55120 itself is about 960 people per Census sq mi across 5.4 sq mi (5,194 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 55120 is about 1.2% of the county reporting population (5,194 of 439,882), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Dakota County leans on aggravated assault at 44% of reported offenses (mix index 3,032). ZIP 55120 has no separate FBI offense book.

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 55120

Similar county violent rate (~3/100K)

Similar Census population (~5,194)

County detail: Dakota County · State atlas: Minnesota

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.