ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 68503
Lancaster County, Nebraska: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 15,667
- Population (ZIP)
- 3
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 51
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 68503 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 68503 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.
ZIP 68503 carries a Census-reported population of 15,667, ranking #10 of 37 ZIPs in Lancaster County, spread across 2.92 square miles (about 5,365 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Lancaster County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Lancaster County crime page linked below.
ZIP 68503 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 68503 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
- $44,874
- Median age
- 26.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 35%
- Occupied homes
- 6,301
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 68503 settlement vs Lancaster County
ZIP 68503 itself is about 5,365 people per Census sq mi across 2.9 sq mi (15,667 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 68503 accounts for roughly 4.9% of the county reporting population (15,667 of 322,608).
Lancaster County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 174 offenses; mix index 4,545). ZIP 68503 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.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 68503
Similar county violent rate (~3/100K)
- ZIP 36420, AL · 2.7/100K · Covington County
- ZIP 11780, NY · 2.9/100K · Suffolk County
- ZIP 30360, GA · 2.6/100K · DeKalb County
- ZIP 44140, OH · 2.6/100K · Cuyahoga County
Similar Census population (~15,667)
- ZIP 84059, UT · 15,667 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 46755, IN · 15,666 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 60447, IL · 15,662 pop · Δ5
- ZIP 26041, WV · 15,659 pop · Δ8
County detail: Lancaster 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.