ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 56531

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

148
Violent rate /100K (county)
1,915
Population (ZIP)
49
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 56531 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 56531 sits within Grant 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.

Grant County reported a violent-crime rate of 148 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 49 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 9 reported violent incidents across a county population of 6,074, 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 56531 is the largest ZIP in Grant County by population, 1,915 residents (#1 of 7 county ZIPs), across 151.4 square miles (13/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Grant County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Grant County crime page linked below.

ZIP 56531 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Grant County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 56531 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
$68,056
Median age
41.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
77%
Occupied homes
784
Median home value
$160,000
Bachelor's degree or higher
21.1%
Poverty rate
12.0%
Unemployment rate
3.9%

ZIP 56531's median home value of $160,000 sits higher than 28% 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).

Grant County UCR book ZIP 56531 inherits

ZIP 56531 itself is about 13 people per Census sq mi across 151.4 sq mi (1,915 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 56531's 1,915 residents are about 31.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (6,074), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Grant County leans on aggravated assault at 58% of reported offenses (mix index 3,958). ZIP 56531 has no separate FBI offense book.

Grant County 2024 vs 2022: property counts +200% vs 2022. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Grant 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 56531

Similar Census population (~1,915)

County detail: Grant 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.