Crime Score for ZIP 53551, Lake Mills, WI
Lake Mills · Jefferson County · June 2026 snapshot · powered by SpotCrime
Lower crime than 82.98% of US ZIP codes
National rank
#10,056
of 13,225 scored ZIPs
Wisconsin rank
#165
of 221 in state
Score index
33.4
crime intensity
Snapshot
June 2026
updated monthly
ZIP code 53551 covers part of Lake Mills in Jefferson County, Wisconsin. In June 2026 it scored in the 17.0th percentile for reported crime among 13,225 scored US ZIP codes. That is a Low Crime rating, among the quietest quarter of scored ZIP codes.
Nationally it ranks #10,056, where #1 is the highest-crime ZIP in the country. Within Wisconsin it ranks #165 of 221. That is 36.6 points below the Wisconsin median of 53.6.
Higher percentile and a lower rank number both mean more reported crime. Levels are fixed cutoffs on the percentile: Low under 25, Below Average to 50, Above Average to 75, High to 90, Very High to 99, Extreme above. Scores reflect incidents reported by police and published by SpotCrime, so they measure reported crime, not every event that happens.
Nearby ZIP codes
1 of 6 score lower than 53551. Closest scored ZIPs by distance.
On SpotCrime
The score on this page is built from the same incident reports SpotCrime maps.
Questions about 53551
- Is ZIP code 53551 safe?
- CrimeScore does not label places safe or unsafe. ZIP 53551 scores in the 17.0th percentile for reported crime as of June 2026, which is a Low Crime rating: among the quietest quarter of scored ZIP codes.. Scores reflect police reports, so areas with less reporting can look calmer than they are.
- How is the crime score for 53551 calculated?
- SpotCrime collects police incident reports for the area, weights them into a crime intensity index, and ranks that index against every scored US ZIP code to get a percentile. The score is republished monthly and carries a model hash so you can tell which version produced it.
- How does 53551 compare with the rest of Wisconsin?
- It ranks #165 of 221 scored ZIP codes in Wisconsin, against a state median of the 53.6th percentile. Nationally it ranks #10,056 of 13,225.
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Data: CrimeScore by SpotCrime, June 2026 publication. Scores describe areas, not people, and are not predictions. Terms.