ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 57273

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

73
Violent rate /100K (county)
1,173
Population (ZIP)
55
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 57273 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 57273 sits within Day 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.

Day County reported a violent-crime rate of 73 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 55 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 4 reported violent incidents across a county population of 5,449, 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 57273 carries a Census-reported population of 1,173, ranking #2 of 7 ZIPs in Day County, spread across 175.01 square miles (about 7 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Day County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Day County crime page linked below.

ZIP 57273 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Day County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 57273 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
$47,344
Median age
39.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
70%
Occupied homes
419
Median home value
$113,500
Bachelor's degree or higher
22.0%
Poverty rate
24.2%
Unemployment rate
10.6%

ZIP 57273's median home value of $113,500 sits higher than 27% of the 226 SD 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).

Day County UCR book ZIP 57273 inherits

ZIP 57273 itself is about 7 people per Census sq mi across 175 sq mi (1,173 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 57273's 1,173 residents are about 21.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (5,449), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Day County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (57% of 7 offenses; mix index 5,306). ZIP 57273 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Day County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -86% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Day 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 57273

Similar Census population (~1,173)

County detail: Day 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.