ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 56401

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

151
Property rate /100K (county)
31,347
Population (ZIP)
50
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 56401 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 56401 sits within Crow Wing County, MN, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 50 violent incidents and 151 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 56401 is the largest ZIP in Crow Wing County by population, 31,347 residents (#1 of 12 county ZIPs), across 322.57 square miles (97/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Crow Wing County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Crow Wing County crime page linked below.

ZIP 56401 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Crow Wing County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 56401 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
$62,275
Median age
39.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
73%
Occupied homes
12,797

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

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 56401?

Within the participating-agency records for Crow Wing County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 86% below and property crime is 91% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 56401. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.

Within the county, 56401 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 12). Its 31,347 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Crow Wing County UCR book ZIP 56401 inherits

ZIP 56401 itself is about 97 people per Census sq mi across 322.6 sq mi (31,347 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 56401's 31,347 residents are about 47.4% of the 2024 county reporting population (66,123), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Crow Wing County leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses (mix index 3,440). ZIP 56401 has no separate FBI offense book.

Crow Wing County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -13% vs 2023; property counts +9% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Crow Wing 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 56401

Similar county violent rate (~50/100K)

Similar Census population (~31,347)

County detail: Crow Wing 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.