ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 40769

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

281
Property rate /100K (county)
18,167
Population (ZIP)
49
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 40769 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 40769 sits within Whitley County, KY. 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.

Whitley County reported a violent-crime rate of 49 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 281 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 18 reported violent incidents across a county population of 36,712, 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 40769 carries a Census-reported population of 18,167, ranking #2 of 4 ZIPs in Whitley County, spread across 280.78 square miles (about 65 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Whitley County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Whitley County crime page linked below.

ZIP 40769 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Whitley County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 40769 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
$44,553
Median age
34.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
64%
Occupied homes
6,158

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

Whitley County UCR book ZIP 40769 inherits

ZIP 40769 itself is about 65 people per Census sq mi across 280.8 sq mi (18,167 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 40769's 18,167 residents are about 49.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (36,712), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Whitley County leans on larceny-theft at 37% of reported offenses (mix index 2,837). ZIP 40769 has no separate FBI offense book.

Whitley County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -18% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Whitley 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 40769

Similar county violent rate (~49/100K)

Similar Census population (~18,167)

County detail: Whitley 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.