ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 43209

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

28,600
Population (ZIP)
8
Violent rate /100K (county)
54
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 43209 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 43209 sits within Franklin County, OH, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.

ZIP 43209 carries a Census-reported population of 28,600, ranking #22 of 43 ZIPs in Franklin County, spread across 6.12 square miles (about 4,673 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Franklin County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Franklin County crime page linked below.

ZIP 43209 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Franklin County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 43209 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
$84,173
Median age
38.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
57%
Occupied homes
12,040

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

ZIP 43209 settlement vs Franklin County

ZIP 43209 itself is about 4,673 people per Census sq mi across 6.1 sq mi (28,600 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 43209 accounts for roughly 2.2% of the county reporting population (28,600 of 1,323,807).

Franklin County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 809 offenses; mix index 4,486). ZIP 43209 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 43209

Similar county violent rate (~8/100K)

Similar Census population (~28,600)

County detail: Franklin 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.