ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 44243

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

325
Property rate /100K (county)
4,996
Population (ZIP)
30
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 44243 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 44243 sits within Portage 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: 30 violent incidents and 325 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 44243 carries a Census-reported population of 4,996, ranking #10 of 15 ZIPs in Portage County, spread across 0.42 square miles (about 11,895 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Portage County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Portage County crime page linked below.

ZIP 44243 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Portage County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 44243 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 age
19.4 years
Occupied homes
0

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 44243?

Within the participating-agency records for Portage 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 44243. 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.

44243 is a densely settled part of the county at about 11,895 people per square mile. Density is not a crime predictor on its own; it only shows why a county-wide average can conceal a very different local setting inside this ZIP.

Portage County UCR book ZIP 44243 inherits

ZIP 44243 itself is about 11,895 people per Census sq mi across 0.4 sq mi (4,996 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 44243 accounts for roughly 3.1% of the county reporting population (4,996 of 161,791).

Portage County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 575 offenses; mix index 4,960). ZIP 44243 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Portage County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -38% vs 2023; property counts -4% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Portage 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 44243

Similar county violent rate (~30/100K)

Similar Census population (~4,996)

County detail: Portage 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.