ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 56552
Clay County, Minnesota: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 540
- Population (ZIP)
- 6
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 78
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 56552 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 56552 sits within Clay County, MN, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.
ZIP 56552 carries a Census-reported population of 540, ranking #9 of 13 ZIPs in Clay County, spread across 46.45 square miles (about 12 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Clay County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Clay County crime page linked below.
ZIP 56552 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Clay County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 56552 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
- $49,766
- Median age
- 40.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 88%
- Occupied homes
- 217
- Median home value
- $147,500
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 17.1%
- Poverty rate
- 9.6%
- Unemployment rate
- 4.8%
ZIP 56552's median home value of $147,500 sits higher than 23% 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).
ZIP 56552 settlement vs Clay County
ZIP 56552 itself is about 12 people per Census sq mi across 46.5 sq mi (540 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 56552 is about 0.8% of the county reporting population (540 of 65,318), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Clay County leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses (mix index 3,739). ZIP 56552 has no separate FBI offense book.
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Read with ZIP 56552
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.