ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 44304

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

129
Property rate /100K (county)
3,592
Population (ZIP)
21
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 44304 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 44304 sits within Summit 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: 21 violent incidents and 129 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

With 3,592 residents, ZIP 44304 is among the smaller ZIPs in Summit County (#29 of 34 by population), spread across 1.31 square miles (2,742/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Summit County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Summit County crime page linked below.

ZIP 44304 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Summit County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 44304 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
$31,311
Median age
23.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
6%
Occupied homes
1,283

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 44304?

Within the participating-agency records for Summit County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 94% below and property crime is 92% 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 44304. 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, 44304 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#29 of 34). 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.

Summit County UCR book ZIP 44304 inherits

ZIP 44304 itself is about 2,742 people per Census sq mi across 1.3 sq mi (3,592 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 44304 is about 0.7% of the county reporting population (3,592 of 540,428), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Summit County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 809 offenses; mix index 5,276). ZIP 44304 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Summit County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -18% vs 2023; property counts -15% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Summit 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 44304

Similar county violent rate (~21/100K)

Similar Census population (~3,592)

County detail: Summit 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.