ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 57741
Meade County, South Dakota: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 509
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 134
- Population (ZIP)
- 60
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 57741 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 57741 sits within Meade 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.
Meade County reported a violent-crime rate of 60 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 509 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 18 reported violent incidents across a county population of 29,852, 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 57741 carries a Census-reported population of 134, ranking #11 of 14 ZIPs in Meade County, spread across 0.16 square miles (about 838 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Meade County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Meade County crime page linked below.
ZIP 57741 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Meade County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 57741 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 age
- 60.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 100%
- Occupied homes
- 53
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
Meade County UCR book ZIP 57741 inherits
ZIP 57741 itself is about 838 people per Census sq mi across 0.2 sq mi (134 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 57741 is about 0.4% of the county reporting population (134 of 29,852), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Meade County leans on burglary at 51% of reported offenses (mix index 3,900). ZIP 57741 has no separate FBI offense book.
Meade County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +38% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Meade 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.
Read with ZIP 57741
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.