ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 42274
Warren County, Kentucky: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 321
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 2,593
- Population (ZIP)
- 33
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 42274 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 42274 sits within Warren 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: 33 violent incidents and 321 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 42274 carries a Census-reported population of 2,593, ranking #6 of 8 ZIPs in Warren County, spread across 41.05 square miles (about 63 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Warren County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Warren County crime page linked below.
ZIP 42274 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Warren County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 42274 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
- $78,355
- Median age
- 43.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 84%
- Occupied homes
- 1,100
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 42274?
Within the participating-agency records for Warren County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 91% below and property crime is 81% 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 42274. 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.
42274 is comparatively spread out at about 63 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.
Warren County UCR book ZIP 42274 inherits
ZIP 42274 itself is about 63 people per Census sq mi across 41.1 sq mi (2,593 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 42274 is about 1.9% of the county reporting population (2,593 of 134,554), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Warren County leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses (mix index 3,747). ZIP 42274 has no separate FBI offense book.
Warren County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -20% vs 2023; property counts -2% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Warren 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 42274
Similar county violent rate (~33/100K)
- ZIP 12846, NY · 33.5/100K · Warren County
- ZIP 62082, IL · 33.4/100K · Greene County
- ZIP 47124, IN · 33.5/100K · Floyd County
- ZIP 65632, MO · 33.3/100K · Laclede County
Similar Census population (~2,593)
- ZIP 43719, OH · 2,593 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 75681, TX · 2,593 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 98548, WA · 2,593 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 29101, SC · 2,592 pop · Δ1
County detail: Warren 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.