ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 68653
Platte County, Nebraska: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 158
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 691
- Population (ZIP)
- 53
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 68653 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 68653 sits within Platte 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.
Platte County reported a violent-crime rate of 53 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 158 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 18 reported violent incidents across a county population of 34,296, 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.
ZIP 68653 carries a Census-reported population of 691, ranking #6 of 8 ZIPs in Platte County, spread across 56.48 square miles (about 12 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Platte County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Platte County crime page linked below.
ZIP 68653 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Platte County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 68653 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
- $84,612
- Median age
- 46.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 92%
- Occupied homes
- 253
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
Platte County UCR book ZIP 68653 inherits
ZIP 68653 itself is about 12 people per Census sq mi across 56.5 sq mi (691 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 68653 is about 2% of the county reporting population (691 of 34,296), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Platte County leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses (mix index 3,862). ZIP 68653 has no separate FBI offense book.
Platte County 2024 vs 2022: property counts -28% vs 2022. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Platte 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 68653
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.