ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 68776

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

185
Property rate /100K (county)
15,167
Population (ZIP)
167
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 68776 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 68776 sits within Dakota County, NE, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 167 violent incidents and 185 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 68776 carries a Census-reported population of 15,167, ranking #1 of 5 ZIPs in Dakota County, spread across 22.18 square miles (about 684 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Dakota County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Dakota County crime page linked below.

ZIP 68776 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Dakota County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 68776 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
$61,923
Median age
30.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
59%
Occupied homes
5,296

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

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 68776?

Within the participating-agency records for Dakota County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 53% below and property crime is 89% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 68776. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.

ZIP 68776 sits near the middle of Dakota County's ZIP population ordering (#1 of 5). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Dakota County UCR book ZIP 68776 inherits

ZIP 68776 itself is about 684 people per Census sq mi across 22.2 sq mi (15,167 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 68776's 15,167 residents are about 70.3% of the 2024 county reporting population (21,582), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Dakota County leans on aggravated assault at 38% of reported offenses (mix index 2,881). ZIP 68776 has no separate FBI offense book.

Dakota County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +112% vs 2023; property counts +100% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Dakota 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.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 68776

Similar county violent rate (~167/100K)

Similar Census population (~15,167)

County detail: Dakota 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.