ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 56001

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

114
Property rate /100K (county)
50,524
Population (ZIP)
32
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 56001 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 56001 sits within Blue Earth County, MN. 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.

Blue Earth County reported a violent-crime rate of 32 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 114 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 22 reported violent incidents across a county population of 69,112, 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 56001 is the largest ZIP in Blue Earth County by population, 50,524 residents (#1 of 12 county ZIPs), across 114.52 square miles (441/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Blue Earth County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Blue Earth County crime page linked below.

ZIP 56001 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Blue Earth County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 56001 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
$65,317
Median age
28.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
54%
Occupied homes
19,836

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

Blue Earth County UCR book ZIP 56001 inherits

ZIP 56001 itself is about 441 people per Census sq mi across 114.5 sq mi (50,524 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 56001's 50,524 residents are about 73.1% of the 2024 county reporting population (69,112), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Blue Earth County leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses (mix index 3,407). ZIP 56001 has no separate FBI offense book.

Blue Earth County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -6% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Blue Earth 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 56001

Similar county violent rate (~32/100K)

Similar Census population (~50,524)

County detail: Blue Earth 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.