ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 44004

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

244
Property rate /100K (county)
31,348
Population (ZIP)
81
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 44004 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 44004 sits within Ashtabula 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: 81 violent incidents and 244 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 44004 is the largest ZIP in Ashtabula County by population, 31,348 residents (#1 of 15 county ZIPs), across 74.07 square miles (423/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Ashtabula County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Ashtabula County crime page linked below.

ZIP 44004 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Ashtabula County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 44004 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
$47,370
Median age
43.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
65%
Occupied homes
13,153

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 44004?

Within the participating-agency records for Ashtabula County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 77% below and property crime is 86% 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 44004. 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, 44004 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 15). Its 31,348 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Ashtabula County UCR book ZIP 44004 inherits

ZIP 44004 itself is about 423 people per Census sq mi across 74.1 sq mi (31,348 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 44004's 31,348 residents are about 32.1% of the 2024 county reporting population (97,574), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Ashtabula County leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses (mix index 3,665). ZIP 44004 has no separate FBI offense book.

Ashtabula County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +39% vs 2023; property counts -48% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Ashtabula 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 44004

Similar county violent rate (~81/100K)

Similar Census population (~31,348)

County detail: Ashtabula 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.