What is the crime rate for ZIP code 61774?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code. ZIP 61774 is located in McLean County, IL, which reported a violent-crime rate of 15 per 100,000 residents in 2024. This is the county's rate, the closest official FBI UCR figure available for this ZIP code. That figure is based on a small reported count and should be treated as a data point, not a precise ranking.

What county is ZIP code 61774 in?

ZIP code 61774 is located in McLean County, IL.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 61774

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

53
Property rate /100K (county): 836
Population (ZIP): 15
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 61774 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 61774 sits within McLean County, IL. 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.

McLean County reported a violent-crime rate of 15 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 53 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 25 reported violent incidents across a county population of 170,954, 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 61774 carries a Census-reported population of 836, ranking #17 of 24 ZIPs in McLean County, spread across 42.86 square miles (about 20 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of McLean County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the McLean County crime page linked below.

ZIP 61774 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from McLean County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 61774 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: $76,250
Median age: 41.4 years
Owner-occupied homes: 83%
Occupied homes: 371

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

McLean County UCR book ZIP 61774 inherits

ZIP 61774 itself is about 20 people per Census sq mi across 42.9 sq mi (836 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 61774 is about 0.5% of the county reporting population (836 of 170,954), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

McLean County leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses (mix index 2,947). ZIP 61774 has no separate FBI offense book.

McLean County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +10% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

McLean County offense mix (2024)

Larceny-Theft 46 offenses (40%) Burglary 38 offenses (33%) Aggravated Assault 14 offenses (12%) Rape 10 offenses (9%) Motor Vehicle Theft 6 offenses (5%)

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 61774

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.