ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 68117

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

96
Property rate /100K (county)
8,678
Population (ZIP)
15
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 68117 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 68117 sits within Douglas County, NE, 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: 15 violent incidents and 96 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 68117 carries a Census-reported population of 8,678, ranking #27 of 35 ZIPs in Douglas County, spread across 4.88 square miles (about 1,778 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Douglas County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Douglas County crime page linked below.

ZIP 68117 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Douglas County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 68117 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
$71,196
Median age
37.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
78%
Occupied homes
3,073

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 68117?

Within the participating-agency records for Douglas County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 96% below and property crime is 94% 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 68117. 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.

ZIP 68117 sits near the middle of Douglas County's ZIP population ordering (#27 of 35). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Douglas County UCR book ZIP 68117 inherits

ZIP 68117 itself is about 1,778 people per Census sq mi across 4.9 sq mi (8,678 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 68117 is about 1.5% of the county reporting population (8,678 of 584,526), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Douglas County leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses (mix index 3,412). ZIP 68117 has no separate FBI offense book.

Douglas County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +16% vs 2023; property counts -16% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Douglas 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 68117

Similar county violent rate (~15/100K)

Similar Census population (~8,678)

County detail: Douglas County · State atlas: Nebraska

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.