ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 56243

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

205
Property rate /100K (county)
1,864
Population (ZIP)
51
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 56243 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 56243 sits within Meeker 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.

Meeker County reported a violent-crime rate of 51 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 205 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 12 reported violent incidents across a county population of 23,400, 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 56243 carries a Census-reported population of 1,864, ranking #5 of 7 ZIPs in Meeker County, spread across 92.73 square miles (about 20 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Meeker County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Meeker County crime page linked below.

ZIP 56243 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Meeker County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 56243 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
$64,583
Median age
37.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
78%
Occupied homes
701

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

Meeker County UCR book ZIP 56243 inherits

ZIP 56243 itself is about 20 people per Census sq mi across 92.7 sq mi (1,864 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 56243 accounts for roughly 8% of the county reporting population (1,864 of 23,400).

Meeker County leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses (mix index 3,250). ZIP 56243 has no separate FBI offense book.

Meeker County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -50% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Meeker 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 56243

Similar county violent rate (~51/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,864)

County detail: Meeker 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.