ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 34609

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,084
Property rate /100K (county)
44,696
Population (ZIP)
218
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 34609 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 34609 sits within Hernando County, FL, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Hernando County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 218 violent and 1,084 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 34609 is the largest ZIP in Hernando County by population, 44,696 residents (#1 of 10 county ZIPs), across 22.19 square miles (2,014/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Hernando County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Hernando County crime page linked below.

ZIP 34609 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Hernando County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 34609 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
$71,303
Median age
44.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
81%
Occupied homes
16,734

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 34609?

Within the participating-agency records for Hernando County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 38% below and property crime is 37% 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 34609. 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.

Within the county, 34609 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 10). Its 44,696 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Hernando County UCR book ZIP 34609 inherits

ZIP 34609 itself is about 2,014 people per Census sq mi across 22.2 sq mi (44,696 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 34609's 44,696 residents are about 23% of the 2024 county reporting population (194,515), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Hernando County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 2,533 offenses; mix index 4,801). ZIP 34609 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Hernando County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -5% vs 2023; property counts +15% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Hernando 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 34609

Similar county violent rate (~218/100K)

Similar Census population (~44,696)

County detail: Hernando County · State atlas: Florida

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.