ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 40511

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

34,873
Population (ZIP)
0
Violent rate /100K (county)
0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 40511 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 40511 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 40511 carries a Census-reported population of 34,873, ranking #4 of 16 ZIPs in Fayette County, spread across 86.04 square miles (about 405 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 40511 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 40511 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
$76,863
Median age
36.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
63%
Occupied homes
13,338

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

ZIP 40511 settlement vs Fayette County

ZIP 40511 itself is about 405 people per Census sq mi across 86 sq mi (34,873 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 40511 accounts for roughly 10.8% of the county reporting population (34,873 of 322,570).

Fayette County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (100% of 1 offenses; mix index 10,000). ZIP 40511 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 40511

Similar Census population (~34,873)

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.

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.