ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 40508
Fayette County, Kentucky: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 25,518
- Population (ZIP)
- 0
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 40508 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 40508 sits within Fayette County, KY, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.
ZIP 40508 carries a Census-reported population of 25,518, ranking #9 of 16 ZIPs in Fayette County, spread across 4.21 square miles (about 6,061 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Fayette County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Fayette County crime page linked below.
ZIP 40508 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Fayette County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 40508 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
- $27,711
- Median age
- 23.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 28%
- Occupied homes
- 10,401
- Median home value
- $148,800
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 34.4%
- Poverty rate
- 36.8%
- Unemployment rate
- 9.4%
ZIP 40508's median home value of $148,800 sits higher than 64% of the 646 KY ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
ZIP 40508 settlement vs Fayette County
ZIP 40508 itself is about 6,061 people per Census sq mi across 4.2 sq mi (25,518 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 40508 accounts for roughly 7.9% of the county reporting population (25,518 of 322,570).
Fayette County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (100% of 1 offenses; mix index 10,000). ZIP 40508 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 40508
Similar Census population (~25,518)
- ZIP 08060, NJ · 25,516 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 77021, TX · 25,500 pop · Δ18
- ZIP 60827, IL · 25,538 pop · Δ20
- ZIP 29036, SC · 25,544 pop · Δ26
County detail: Fayette County · State atlas: Kentucky
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.