What is the crime rate for ZIP code 62617?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code. ZIP 62617 is located in Mason County, IL, which reported a violent-crime rate of 31 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 62617 in?

ZIP code 62617 is located in Mason County, IL.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 62617

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

31
Violent rate /100K (county): 478
Population (ZIP): 15
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 62617 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 62617 sits within Mason 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.

Mason County reported a violent-crime rate of 31 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 15 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 4 reported violent incidents across a county population of 13,086, 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.

With 478 residents, ZIP 62617 is among the smaller ZIPs in Mason County (#7 of 8 by population), spread across 61.74 square miles (8/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Mason County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Mason County crime page linked below.

ZIP 62617 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Mason County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 62617 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: $51,786
Median age: 56.2 years
Owner-occupied homes: 89%
Occupied homes: 252

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

Mason County UCR book ZIP 62617 inherits

ZIP 62617 itself is about 8 people per Census sq mi across 61.7 sq mi (478 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 62617 accounts for roughly 3.7% of the county reporting population (478 of 13,086).

Mason County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (67% of 6 offenses; mix index 5,556). ZIP 62617 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Mason County offense mix (2024)

Aggravated Assault 4 offenses (67%) Burglary 2 offenses (33%)

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 62617

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.