ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 56097

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

187
Violent rate /100K (county)
3,614
Population (ZIP)
93
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 56097 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 56097 sits within Faribault 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.

Faribault County reported a violent-crime rate of 187 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 93 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 26 reported violent incidents across a county population of 13,921, 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 56097 carries a Census-reported population of 3,614, ranking #2 of 9 ZIPs in Faribault County, spread across 175.55 square miles (about 21 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Faribault County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Faribault County crime page linked below.

ZIP 56097 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Faribault County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 56097 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
$59,080
Median age
46.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
82%
Occupied homes
1,575

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

Faribault County UCR book ZIP 56097 inherits

ZIP 56097 itself is about 21 people per Census sq mi across 175.6 sq mi (3,614 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 56097's 3,614 residents are about 26% of the 2024 county reporting population (13,921), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Faribault County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (67% of 39 offenses; mix index 4,885). ZIP 56097 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Faribault County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -13% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Faribault 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 56097

Similar county violent rate (~187/100K)

Similar Census population (~3,614)

County detail: Faribault 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.