ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 56477

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

28
Violent rate /100K (county)
2,608
Population (ZIP)
21
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 56477 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 56477 sits within Wadena 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.

Wadena County reported a violent-crime rate of 28 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 21 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 4 reported violent incidents across a county population of 14,065, 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 56477 carries a Census-reported population of 2,608, ranking #3 of 4 ZIPs in Wadena County, spread across 250.72 square miles (about 10 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Wadena County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Wadena County crime page linked below.

ZIP 56477 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Wadena County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 56477 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
$55,083
Median age
42.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
80%
Occupied homes
1,128

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

Wadena County UCR book ZIP 56477 inherits

ZIP 56477 itself is about 10 people per Census sq mi across 250.7 sq mi (2,608 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 56477's 2,608 residents are about 18.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (14,065), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Wadena County keeps 6 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,449); aggravated assault still leads at 29%. ZIP 56477 inherits the county book.

Wadena County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +200% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Wadena 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 56477

Similar county violent rate (~28/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,608)

County detail: Wadena 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.