ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 55438
Hennepin County, Minnesota: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 16,009
- Population (ZIP)
- 4
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 1
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 55438 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 55438 sits within Hennepin 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 55438 carries a Census-reported population of 16,009, ranking #39 of 67 ZIPs in Hennepin County, spread across 8.29 square miles (about 1,931 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Hennepin County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Hennepin County crime page linked below.
ZIP 55438 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Hennepin County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 55438 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
- $97,707
- Median age
- 44.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 80%
- Occupied homes
- 7,161
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 55438 settlement vs Hennepin County
ZIP 55438 itself is about 1,931 people per Census sq mi across 8.3 sq mi (16,009 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 55438 is about 1.2% of the county reporting population (16,009 of 1,281,565), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Hennepin County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (68% of 62 offenses; mix index 4,925). ZIP 55438 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 55438
Similar county violent rate (~4/100K)
- ZIP 48206, MI · 3.5/100K · Wayne County
- ZIP 40383, KY · 3.7/100K · Woodford County
- ZIP 30248, GA · 3.7/100K · Henry County
- ZIP 80701, CO · 3.4/100K · Morgan County
Similar Census population (~16,009)
- ZIP 36081, AL · 16,008 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 77029, TX · 16,008 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 26104, WV · 16,011 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 14564, NY · 16,006 pop · Δ3
County detail: Hennepin 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.