ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 68864

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

78
Property rate /100K (county)
1,175
Population (ZIP)
52
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 68864 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 68864 sits within Merrick 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.

Merrick County reported a violent-crime rate of 52 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 78 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 4 reported violent incidents across a county population of 7,668, 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 68864 carries a Census-reported population of 1,175, ranking #2 of 6 ZIPs in Merrick County, spread across 174.95 square miles (about 7 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Merrick County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Merrick County crime page linked below.

ZIP 68864 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Merrick County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 68864 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
37.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
88%
Occupied homes
444

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

Merrick County UCR book ZIP 68864 inherits

ZIP 68864 itself is about 7 people per Census sq mi across 175 sq mi (1,175 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 68864's 1,175 residents are about 15.3% of the 2024 county reporting population (7,668), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Merrick County keeps 5 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,400); larceny-theft still leads at 30%. ZIP 68864 inherits the county book.

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

Merrick 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 68864

Similar Census population (~1,175)

County detail: Merrick 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.