ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 68850

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

50
Violent rate /100K (county)
12,175
Population (ZIP)
42
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 68850 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 68850 sits within Dawson 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.

Dawson County reported a violent-crime rate of 50 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 42 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 12 reported violent incidents across a county population of 24,111, 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 68850 is the largest ZIP in Dawson County by population, 12,175 residents (#1 of 7 county ZIPs), across 266.98 square miles (46/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Dawson County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Dawson County crime page linked below.

ZIP 68850 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Dawson County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 68850 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
$66,875
Median age
31.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
61%
Occupied homes
3,845

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

Dawson County UCR book ZIP 68850 inherits

ZIP 68850 itself is about 46 people per Census sq mi across 267 sq mi (12,175 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 68850's 12,175 residents are about 50.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (24,111), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Dawson County leans on aggravated assault at 41% of reported offenses (mix index 2,975). ZIP 68850 has no separate FBI offense book.

Dawson County 2024 vs 2021: property counts -71% vs 2021. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Dawson 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 68850

Similar county violent rate (~50/100K)

Similar Census population (~12,175)

County detail: Dawson 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.