ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 45320

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

224
Property rate /100K (county)
15,525
Population (ZIP)
34
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 45320 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 45320 sits within Preble County, OH. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Preble County reported a violent-crime rate of 34 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 224 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 14 reported violent incidents across a county population of 40,999, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

ZIP 45320 is the largest ZIP in Preble County by population, 15,525 residents (#1 of 11 county ZIPs), across 134.01 square miles (116/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Preble County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Preble County crime page linked below.

ZIP 45320 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Preble County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 45320 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
$64,828
Median age
43.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
77%
Occupied homes
6,500

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

Preble County UCR book ZIP 45320 inherits

ZIP 45320 itself is about 116 people per Census sq mi across 134 sq mi (15,525 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 45320's 15,525 residents are about 37.9% of the 2024 county reporting population (40,999), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Preble County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 106 offenses; mix index 5,466). ZIP 45320 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Preble County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -21% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Preble 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 45320

Similar county violent rate (~34/100K)

Similar Census population (~15,525)

County detail: Preble 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.