What is the crime rate for ZIP code 56560?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code, and for Clay County, MN (the county containing ZIP 56560) agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the UCR Program. The county figures shown cover only the agencies that submitted, so no meaningful crime rate can be stated for this area. Low reported counts here indicate missing reports, not an absence of crime.

What county is ZIP code 56560 in?

ZIP code 56560 is located in Clay County, MN.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 56560

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

43,860
Population (ZIP): 6
Violent rate /100K (county): 78
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 56560 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 56560 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 56560 is the largest ZIP in Clay County by population, 43,860 residents (#1 of 13 county ZIPs), across 157.36 square miles (279/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Clay County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Clay County crime page linked below.

ZIP 56560 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 56560 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: $70,107
Median age: 32.2 years
Owner-occupied homes: 59%
Occupied homes: 18,126

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

ZIP 56560 settlement vs Clay County

ZIP 56560 itself is about 279 people per Census sq mi across 157.4 sq mi (43,860 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 56560's 43,860 residents are about 67.1% of the 2024 county reporting population (65,318), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Clay County leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses (mix index 3,739). ZIP 56560 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.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 56560

Similar county violent rate (~6/100K)

ZIP 62650, IL · 6.1/100K · Morgan County
ZIP 61356, IL · 6/100K · Bureau County
ZIP 07107, NJ · 6.3/100K · Essex County
ZIP 82604, WY · 6.3/100K · Natrona County

Similar Census population (~43,860)

ZIP 94403, CA · 43,858 pop · Δ2
ZIP 75050, TX · 43,856 pop · Δ4
ZIP 30152, GA · 43,865 pop · Δ5
ZIP 91748, CA · 43,851 pop · Δ9

County detail: Clay 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.