What is the crime rate for ZIP code 57242?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code. ZIP 57242 is located in Hamlin County, SD, which reported a violent-crime rate of 65 per 100,000 residents in 2024. This is the county's rate, the closest official FBI UCR figure available for this ZIP code. That figure is based on a small reported count and should be treated as a data point, not a precise ranking.

What county is ZIP code 57242 in?

ZIP code 57242 is located in Hamlin County, SD.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 57242

Hamlin County, South Dakota: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

503
Property rate /100K (county): 415
Population (ZIP): 65
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 57242 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 57242 sits within Hamlin County, SD. 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.

Hamlin County reported a violent-crime rate of 65 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 503 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 4 reported violent incidents across a county population of 6,164, 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.

With 415 residents, ZIP 57242 is among the smaller ZIPs in Hamlin County (#5 of 5 by population), spread across 86.67 square miles (5/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Hamlin County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Hamlin County crime page linked below.

ZIP 57242 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Hamlin County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 57242 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: $99,375
Median age: 32.8 years
Owner-occupied homes: 98%
Occupied homes: 131

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

Hamlin County UCR book ZIP 57242 inherits

ZIP 57242 itself is about 5 people per Census sq mi across 86.7 sq mi (415 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 57242 accounts for roughly 6.7% of the county reporting population (415 of 6,164).

Hamlin County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 35 offenses; mix index 4,237). ZIP 57242 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Hamlin County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -11% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Hamlin County offense mix (2024)

Larceny-Theft 21 offenses (60%) Motor Vehicle Theft 8 offenses (23%) Aggravated Assault 3 offenses (9%) Burglary 2 offenses (6%) Rape 1 offenses (3%)

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.

Read with ZIP 57242

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.