ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 45248

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)
24,051
Population (ZIP)
24
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 45248 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 45248 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 45248 carries a Census-reported population of 24,051, ranking #11 of 54 ZIPs in Hamilton County, spread across 11.39 square miles (about 2,112 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 45248 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 45248 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
$82,480
Median age
39.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
87%
Occupied homes
9,586

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 45248?

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 45248. 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.

ZIP 45248 sits near the middle of Hamilton County's ZIP population ordering (#11 of 54). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Hamilton County UCR book ZIP 45248 inherits

ZIP 45248 itself is about 2,112 people per Census sq mi across 11.4 sq mi (24,051 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 45248 accounts for roughly 2.9% of the county reporting population (24,051 of 830,639).

Hamilton County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 1,884 offenses; mix index 5,886). ZIP 45248 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 45248

Similar county violent rate (~24/100K)

Similar Census population (~24,051)

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.