ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 44609

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

3,267
Population (ZIP)
5
Violent rate /100K (county)
31
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 44609 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 44609 sits within Mahoning 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 44609 carries a Census-reported population of 3,267, ranking #16 of 28 ZIPs in Mahoning County, spread across 26.93 square miles (about 121 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Mahoning County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Mahoning County crime page linked below.

ZIP 44609 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Mahoning County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 44609 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
$54,796
Median age
51.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
84%
Occupied homes
1,460

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

ZIP 44609 settlement vs Mahoning County

ZIP 44609 itself is about 121 people per Census sq mi across 26.9 sq mi (3,267 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 44609 is about 1.4% of the county reporting population (3,267 of 228,614), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Mahoning County leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses (mix index 3,557). ZIP 44609 has no separate FBI offense book.

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 44609

Similar county violent rate (~5/100K)

Similar Census population (~3,267)

County detail: Mahoning 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.