ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 55306
Dakota County, Minnesota: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 16,378
- Population (ZIP)
- 3
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 3
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 55306 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 55306 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 55306 carries a Census-reported population of 16,378, ranking #12 of 19 ZIPs in Dakota County, spread across 6.22 square miles (about 2,633 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 55306 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 55306 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
- $94,205
- Median age
- 36.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 65%
- Occupied homes
- 6,297
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 55306 settlement vs Dakota County
ZIP 55306 itself is about 2,633 people per Census sq mi across 6.2 sq mi (16,378 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 55306 accounts for roughly 3.7% of the county reporting population (16,378 of 439,882).
Dakota County leans on aggravated assault at 44% of reported offenses (mix index 3,032). ZIP 55306 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 55306
Similar county violent rate (~3/100K)
- ZIP 80701, CO · 3.4/100K · Morgan County
- ZIP 05819, VT · 3.3/100K · Caledonia County
- ZIP 48225, MI · 3.5/100K · Wayne County
- ZIP 12308, NY · 3.2/100K · Schenectady County
Similar Census population (~16,378)
- ZIP 48912, MI · 16,378 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 11950, NY · 16,379 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 37763, TN · 16,377 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 19703, DE · 16,376 pop · Δ2
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.