ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 43148
Fairfield County, Ohio: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 381
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 1,871
- Population (ZIP)
- 37
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 43148 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 43148 sits within Fairfield County, OH, 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: 37 violent incidents and 381 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
With 1,871 residents, ZIP 43148 is among the smaller ZIPs in Fairfield County (#13 of 14 by population), spread across 26.96 square miles (69/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Fairfield County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Fairfield County crime page linked below.
ZIP 43148 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Fairfield County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 43148 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
- $66,942
- Median age
- 42.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 78%
- Occupied homes
- 713
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 43148?
Within the participating-agency records for Fairfield County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 89% below and property crime is 78% 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 43148. 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.
Within the county, 43148 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#13 of 14). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.
Fairfield County UCR book ZIP 43148 inherits
ZIP 43148 itself is about 69 people per Census sq mi across 27 sq mi (1,871 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 43148 is about 1.2% of the county reporting population (1,871 of 158,921), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Fairfield County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 664 offenses; mix index 5,976). ZIP 43148 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Fairfield County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -38% vs 2023; property counts -30% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Fairfield 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 43148
Similar county violent rate (~37/100K)
- ZIP 39406, MS · 37.1/100K · Forrest County
- ZIP 13736, NY · 37.1/100K · Tioga County
- ZIP 60936, IL · 36.9/100K · Ford County
- ZIP 49719, MI · 36.9/100K · Mackinac County
Similar Census population (~1,871)
- ZIP 53926, WI · 1,871 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 54766, WI · 1,871 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 55790, MN · 1,871 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 32212, FL · 1,872 pop · Δ1
County detail: Fairfield County · State atlas: Ohio
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.