ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 62246

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

161
Property rate /100K (county)
10,117
Population (ZIP)
48
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 62246 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 62246 sits within Bond 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.

Bond County reported a violent-crime rate of 48 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 161 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 8 reported violent incidents across a county population of 16,725, 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 62246 is the largest ZIP in Bond County by population, 10,117 residents (#1 of 8 county ZIPs), across 143.09 square miles (71/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Bond County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Bond County crime page linked below.

ZIP 62246 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Bond County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 62246 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
$60,250
Median age
39.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
64%
Occupied homes
3,713

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

Bond County UCR book ZIP 62246 inherits

ZIP 62246 itself is about 71 people per Census sq mi across 143.1 sq mi (10,117 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 62246's 10,117 residents are about 60.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (16,725), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Bond County keeps 6 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,392); larceny-theft still leads at 31%. ZIP 62246 inherits the county book.

Bond County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -21% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Bond 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 62246

Similar county violent rate (~48/100K)

Similar Census population (~10,117)

County detail: Bond 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.