ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 56026

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

155
Property rate /100K (county)
1,812
Population (ZIP)
16
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 56026 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 56026 sits within Steele 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.

Steele County reported a violent-crime rate of 16 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 155 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 6 reported violent incidents across a county population of 37,406, 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 56026 carries a Census-reported population of 1,812, ranking #4 of 5 ZIPs in Steele County, spread across 103.53 square miles (about 18 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Steele County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Steele County crime page linked below.

ZIP 56026 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Steele County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 56026 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
$90,167
Median age
46.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
87%
Occupied homes
744

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

Steele County UCR book ZIP 56026 inherits

ZIP 56026 itself is about 18 people per Census sq mi across 103.5 sq mi (1,812 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 56026 accounts for roughly 4.8% of the county reporting population (1,812 of 37,406).

Steele County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (56% of 64 offenses; mix index 4,043). ZIP 56026 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Steele County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +53% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Steele 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 56026

Similar county violent rate (~16/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,812)

County detail: Steele 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.