ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 45208
Hamilton County, Ohio: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 203
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 17,911
- Population (ZIP)
- 24
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 45208 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 45208 sits within Hamilton 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: 24 violent incidents and 203 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 45208 carries a Census-reported population of 17,911, ranking #23 of 54 ZIPs in Hamilton County, spread across 4.31 square miles (about 4,156 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Hamilton County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Hamilton County crime page linked below.
ZIP 45208 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Hamilton County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 45208 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
- $131,330
- Median age
- 36.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 64%
- Occupied homes
- 8,365
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 45208?
Within the participating-agency records for Hamilton County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 93% below and property crime is 88% 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 45208. 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.
45208 is a densely settled part of the county at about 4,156 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.
Hamilton County UCR book ZIP 45208 inherits
ZIP 45208 itself is about 4,156 people per Census sq mi across 4.3 sq mi (17,911 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 45208 accounts for roughly 2.2% of the county reporting population (17,911 of 830,639).
Hamilton County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 1,884 offenses; mix index 5,886). ZIP 45208 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Hamilton County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +7% vs 2023; property counts -4% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Hamilton 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 45208
Similar county violent rate (~24/100K)
- ZIP 42445, KY · 23.7/100K · Caldwell County
- ZIP 04938, ME · 23.8/100K · Franklin County
- ZIP 54301, WI · 23.8/100K · Brown County
- ZIP 55057, MN · 23.8/100K · Rice County
Similar Census population (~17,911)
- ZIP 53158, WI · 17,914 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 85739, AZ · 17,914 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 97103, OR · 17,914 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 08062, NJ · 17,907 pop · Δ4
County detail: Hamilton 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.