ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 42240

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

177
Property rate /100K (county)
41,788
Population (ZIP)
18
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 42240 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 42240 sits within Christian 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.

Christian County reported a violent-crime rate of 18 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 177 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 13 reported violent incidents across a county population of 72,748, 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 42240 is the largest ZIP in Christian County by population, 41,788 residents (#1 of 8 county ZIPs), across 277.15 square miles (151/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Christian County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Christian County crime page linked below.

ZIP 42240 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Christian County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 42240 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
$46,116
Median age
35.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
53%
Occupied homes
16,360

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

Christian County UCR book ZIP 42240 inherits

ZIP 42240 itself is about 151 people per Census sq mi across 277.2 sq mi (41,788 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 42240's 41,788 residents are about 57.4% of the 2024 county reporting population (72,748), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Christian County leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses (mix index 3,553). ZIP 42240 has no separate FBI offense book.

Christian County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -30% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Christian 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 42240

Similar county violent rate (~18/100K)

Similar Census population (~41,788)

County detail: Christian 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.