ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 68315
Thayer County, Nebraska: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 179
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 86
- Population (ZIP)
- 80
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 68315 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 68315 sits within Thayer County, NE. 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.
Thayer County reported a violent-crime rate of 80 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 179 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 4 reported violent incidents across a county population of 5,034, 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 86 residents, ZIP 68315 is among the smaller ZIPs in Thayer County (#10 of 11 by population), spread across 34.6 square miles (2/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Thayer County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Thayer County crime page linked below.
ZIP 68315 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Thayer County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 68315 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
- $65,417
- Median age
- 52.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 69%
- Occupied homes
- 35
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
Thayer County UCR book ZIP 68315 inherits
ZIP 68315 itself is about 2 people per Census sq mi across 34.6 sq mi (86 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 68315 is about 1.7% of the county reporting population (86 of 5,034), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Thayer County leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses (mix index 3,964). ZIP 68315 has no separate FBI offense book.
Thayer County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -25% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Thayer 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.
Read with ZIP 68315
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.