ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 41048
Boone County, Kentucky: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 391
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 16,074
- Population (ZIP)
- 49
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 41048 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 41048 sits within Boone County, KY, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 49 violent incidents and 391 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 41048 carries a Census-reported population of 16,074, ranking #4 of 7 ZIPs in Boone County, spread across 33.53 square miles (about 479 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Boone County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Boone County crime page linked below.
ZIP 41048 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Boone County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 41048 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
- $123,061
- Median age
- 37.9 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 88%
- Occupied homes
- 5,319
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 41048?
Within the participating-agency records for Boone County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 86% below and property crime is 77% 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 41048. 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.
ZIP 41048 sits near the middle of Boone County's ZIP population ordering (#4 of 7). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Boone County UCR book ZIP 41048 inherits
ZIP 41048 itself is about 479 people per Census sq mi across 33.5 sq mi (16,074 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 41048 accounts for roughly 11.8% of the county reporting population (16,074 of 135,968).
Boone County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 598 offenses; mix index 4,066). ZIP 41048 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Boone County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -16% vs 2023; property counts -14% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Boone 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 41048
Similar county violent rate (~49/100K)
- ZIP 61048, IL · 49.3/100K · Stephenson County
- ZIP 97361, OR · 49.2/100K · Polk County
- ZIP 83333, ID · 49.4/100K · Blaine County
- ZIP 62056, IL · 49.5/100K · Montgomery County
Similar Census population (~16,074)
- ZIP 24015, VA · 16,074 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 53715, WI · 16,072 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 08882, NJ · 16,081 pop · Δ7
- ZIP 16503, PA · 16,065 pop · Δ9
County detail: Boone 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.