ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 42261

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

162
Property rate /100K (county)
9,850
Population (ZIP)
40
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 42261 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 42261 sits within Butler 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.

Butler County reported a violent-crime rate of 40 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 162 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 5 reported violent incidents across a county population of 12,371, 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 42261 carries a Census-reported population of 9,850, ranking #1 of 4 ZIPs in Butler County, spread across 287.8 square miles (about 34 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Butler County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Butler County crime page linked below.

ZIP 42261 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Butler County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 42261 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
$45,462
Median age
40.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
69%
Occupied homes
3,591

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

Butler County UCR book ZIP 42261 inherits

ZIP 42261 itself is about 34 people per Census sq mi across 287.8 sq mi (9,850 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 42261's 9,850 residents are about 79.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (12,371), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Butler County leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses (mix index 2,608). ZIP 42261 has no separate FBI offense book.

Butler County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Butler 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 42261

Similar county violent rate (~40/100K)

Similar Census population (~9,850)

County detail: Butler 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.