ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 68522
Lancaster County, Nebraska: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 13,756
- Population (ZIP)
- 3
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 51
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 68522 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 68522 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 68522 carries a Census-reported population of 13,756, ranking #12 of 37 ZIPs in Lancaster County, spread across 10.59 square miles (about 1,299 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 68522 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 68522 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
- $72,917
- Median age
- 32.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 72%
- Occupied homes
- 4,471
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 68522 settlement vs Lancaster County
ZIP 68522 itself is about 1,299 people per Census sq mi across 10.6 sq mi (13,756 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 68522 accounts for roughly 4.3% of the county reporting population (13,756 of 322,608).
Lancaster County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 174 offenses; mix index 4,545). ZIP 68522 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 68522
Similar county violent rate (~3/100K)
- ZIP 36420, AL · 2.7/100K · Covington County
- ZIP 11953, NY · 2.9/100K · Suffolk County
- ZIP 30317, GA · 2.6/100K · DeKalb County
- ZIP 44141, OH · 2.6/100K · Cuyahoga County
Similar Census population (~13,756)
- ZIP 28697, NC · 13,751 pop · Δ5
- ZIP 32931, FL · 13,762 pop · Δ6
- ZIP 61071, IL · 13,766 pop · Δ10
- ZIP 77032, TX · 13,743 pop · Δ13
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.