ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 45069

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

175
Property rate /100K (county)
55,414
Population (ZIP)
14
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 45069 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 45069 sits within Butler 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: 14 violent incidents and 175 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 45069 is the largest ZIP in Butler County by population, 55,414 residents (#2 of 14 county ZIPs), across 28.97 square miles (1,913/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Butler County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Butler County crime page linked below.

ZIP 45069 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Butler County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 45069 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
$109,433
Median age
38.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
78%
Occupied homes
20,626

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 45069?

Within the participating-agency records for Butler County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 96% below and property crime is 90% 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 45069. 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, 45069 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#2 of 14). Its 55,414 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Butler County UCR book ZIP 45069 inherits

ZIP 45069 itself is about 1,913 people per Census sq mi across 29 sq mi (55,414 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 45069 accounts for roughly 14.2% of the county reporting population (55,414 of 390,357).

Butler County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 738 offenses; mix index 6,455). ZIP 45069 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Butler County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -5% vs 2023; property counts -1% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Butler 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 45069

Similar county violent rate (~14/100K)

Similar Census population (~55,414)

County detail: Butler 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.