ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 55379

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

48,318
Population (ZIP)
5
Violent rate /100K (county)
23
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 55379 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 55379 sits within Scott 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 55379 is the largest ZIP in Scott County by population, 48,318 residents (#1 of 7 county ZIPs), across 57.87 square miles (835/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Scott County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Scott County crime page linked below.

ZIP 55379 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Scott County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 55379 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
$103,278
Median age
35.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
73%
Occupied homes
17,095

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

ZIP 55379 settlement vs Scott County

ZIP 55379 itself is about 835 people per Census sq mi across 57.9 sq mi (48,318 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 55379's 48,318 residents are about 32% of the 2024 county reporting population (150,928), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Scott County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 43 offenses; mix index 4,646). ZIP 55379 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

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 55379

Similar county violent rate (~5/100K)

Similar Census population (~48,318)

County detail: Scott 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.