What is the crime rate for ZIP code 68438?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code, and for Lancaster County, NE (the county containing ZIP 68438) agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the UCR Program. The county figures shown cover only the agencies that submitted, so no meaningful crime rate can be stated for this area. Low reported counts here indicate missing reports, not an absence of crime.

What county is ZIP code 68438 in?

ZIP code 68438 is located in Lancaster County, NE.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 68438

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

91
Population (ZIP): 3
Violent rate /100K (county): 51
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 68438 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 68438 sits within Lancaster County, NE, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.

With 91 residents, ZIP 68438 is among the smaller ZIPs in Lancaster County (#36 of 37 by population), spread across 0.1 square miles (910/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Lancaster County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Lancaster County crime page linked below.

ZIP 68438 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Lancaster County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 68438 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: $50,000
Median age: 57.8 years
Owner-occupied homes: 81%
Occupied homes: 48

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

ZIP 68438 settlement vs Lancaster County

ZIP 68438 itself is about 910 people per Census sq mi across 0.1 sq mi (91 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 68438 is about 0% of the county reporting population (91 of 322,608), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Lancaster County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 174 offenses; mix index 4,545). ZIP 68438 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.

Read with ZIP 68438

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.