ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 56255

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

162
Property rate /100K (county)
381
Population (ZIP)
45
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 56255 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 56255 sits within Redwood 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.

Redwood County reported a violent-crime rate of 45 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 162 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 7 reported violent incidents across a county population of 15,425, 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 56255 carries a Census-reported population of 381, ranking #10 of 14 ZIPs in Redwood County, spread across 38.08 square miles (about 10 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Redwood County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Redwood County crime page linked below.

ZIP 56255 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Redwood County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 56255 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
$67,955
Median age
40.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
69%
Occupied homes
172
Median home value
$150,800
Bachelor's degree or higher
26.6%
Poverty rate
12.9%
Unemployment rate
0.5%

ZIP 56255's median home value of $150,800 sits higher than 24% of the 840 MN ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.

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

Redwood County UCR book ZIP 56255 inherits

ZIP 56255 itself is about 10 people per Census sq mi across 38.1 sq mi (381 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 56255 accounts for roughly 2.5% of the county reporting population (381 of 15,425).

Redwood County leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses (mix index 3,672). ZIP 56255 has no separate FBI offense book.

Redwood County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -54% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Redwood 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.

Read with ZIP 56255

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.