ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 60451

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

81
Property rate /100K (county)
37,488
Population (ZIP)
24
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 60451 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 60451 sits within Will County, IL, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 24 violent incidents and 81 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 60451 carries a Census-reported population of 37,488, ranking #6 of 30 ZIPs in Will County, spread across 25.16 square miles (about 1,490 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Will County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Will County crime page linked below.

ZIP 60451 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Will County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 60451 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
$128,316
Median age
37.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
93%
Occupied homes
12,425

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

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 60451?

Within the participating-agency records for Will County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 93% below and property crime is 95% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 60451. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.

ZIP 60451 sits near the middle of Will County's ZIP population ordering (#6 of 30). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Will County UCR book ZIP 60451 inherits

ZIP 60451 itself is about 1,490 people per Census sq mi across 25.2 sq mi (37,488 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 60451 accounts for roughly 5.4% of the county reporting population (37,488 of 696,355).

Will County keeps 8 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,473); larceny-theft still leads at 37%. ZIP 60451 inherits the county book.

Will County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -17% vs 2023; property counts +1% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Will 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 60451

Similar county violent rate (~24/100K)

Similar Census population (~37,488)

County detail: Will County · State atlas: Illinois

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.