ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 62868

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

417
Property rate /100K (county)
1,706
Population (ZIP)
51
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 62868 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 62868 sits within Richland 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.

Richland County reported a violent-crime rate of 51 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 417 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 8 reported violent incidents across a county population of 15,813, 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 62868 carries a Census-reported population of 1,706, ranking #2 of 6 ZIPs in Richland County, spread across 104.06 square miles (about 16 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Richland County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Richland County crime page linked below.

ZIP 62868 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Richland County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 62868 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
$55,446
Median age
40.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
81%
Occupied homes
706

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

Richland County UCR book ZIP 62868 inherits

ZIP 62868 itself is about 16 people per Census sq mi across 104.1 sq mi (1,706 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 62868 accounts for roughly 10.8% of the county reporting population (1,706 of 15,813).

Richland County leans on larceny-theft at 42% of reported offenses (mix index 3,616). ZIP 62868 has no separate FBI offense book.

Richland 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 62868

Similar county violent rate (~51/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,706)

County detail: Richland 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.