ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 57262

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

136
Violent rate /100K (county)
5,389
Population (ZIP)
68
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 57262 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 57262 sits within Roberts 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.

Roberts County reported a violent-crime rate of 136 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 68 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 14 reported violent incidents across a county population of 10,280, 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 57262 is the largest ZIP in Roberts County by population, 5,389 residents (#1 of 8 county ZIPs), across 335.92 square miles (16/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Roberts County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Roberts County crime page linked below.

ZIP 57262 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Roberts County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 57262 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
$49,125
Median age
33.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
53%
Occupied homes
1,779

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

Roberts County UCR book ZIP 57262 inherits

ZIP 57262 itself is about 16 people per Census sq mi across 335.9 sq mi (5,389 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 57262's 5,389 residents are about 52.4% of the 2024 county reporting population (10,280), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Roberts County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (67% of 21 offenses; mix index 5,011). ZIP 57262 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Roberts County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +40% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Roberts 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 57262

Similar county violent rate (~136/100K)

Similar Census population (~5,389)

County detail: Roberts County · State atlas: South Dakota

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.