ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 68521

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

38,231
Population (ZIP)
3
Violent rate /100K (county)
51
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 68521 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 68521 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 68521 is the largest ZIP in Lancaster County by population, 38,231 residents (#2 of 37 county ZIPs), across 13.17 square miles (2,903/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 68521 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 68521 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
$62,582
Median age
31.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
57%
Occupied homes
14,714

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

ZIP 68521 settlement vs Lancaster County

ZIP 68521 itself is about 2,903 people per Census sq mi across 13.2 sq mi (38,231 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 68521 accounts for roughly 11.9% of the county reporting population (38,231 of 322,608).

Lancaster County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 174 offenses; mix index 4,545). ZIP 68521 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 68521

Similar county violent rate (~3/100K)

Similar Census population (~38,231)

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.