ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 60970

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

421
Property rate /100K (county)
6,025
Population (ZIP)
115
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 60970 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 60970 sits within Iroquois 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: 115 violent incidents and 421 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 60970 is the largest ZIP in Iroquois County by population, 6,025 residents (#1 of 23 county ZIPs), across 127.34 square miles (47/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Iroquois County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Iroquois County crime page linked below.

ZIP 60970 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Iroquois County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 60970 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
$51,483
Median age
50.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
75%
Occupied homes
2,633

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 60970?

Within the participating-agency records for Iroquois County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 67% below and property crime is 75% 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 60970. 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, 60970 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 23). Its 6,025 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Iroquois County UCR book ZIP 60970 inherits

ZIP 60970 itself is about 47 people per Census sq mi across 127.3 sq mi (6,025 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 60970's 6,025 residents are about 22.3% of the 2024 county reporting population (27,077), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Iroquois County leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses (mix index 3,281). ZIP 60970 has no separate FBI offense book.

Iroquois County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +19% vs 2023; property counts -12% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Iroquois 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 60970

Similar county violent rate (~115/100K)

Similar Census population (~6,025)

County detail: Iroquois 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.