ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 60506

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

41
Property rate /100K (county)
50,300
Population (ZIP)
14
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 60506 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 60506 sits within Kane 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: 14 violent incidents and 41 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 60506 is the largest ZIP in Kane County by population, 50,300 residents (#2 of 22 county ZIPs), across 21.25 square miles (2,367/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Kane County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Kane County crime page linked below.

ZIP 60506 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Kane County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 60506 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
$71,560
Median age
35.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
65%
Occupied homes
17,784

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 60506?

Within the participating-agency records for Kane County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 96% below and property crime is 98% 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 60506. 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.

Within the county, 60506 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#2 of 22). Its 50,300 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Kane County UCR book ZIP 60506 inherits

ZIP 60506 itself is about 2,367 people per Census sq mi across 21.3 sq mi (50,300 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 60506 accounts for roughly 9.7% of the county reporting population (50,300 of 516,522).

Kane County leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses (mix index 2,638). ZIP 60506 has no separate FBI offense book.

Kane County 2024 vs 2020: violent counts -22% vs 2020. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Kane 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 60506

Similar county violent rate (~14/100K)

Similar Census population (~50,300)

County detail: Kane 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.