ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 45694

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

532
Property rate /100K (county)
12,530
Population (ZIP)
120
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 45694 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 45694 sits within Scioto 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: 120 violent incidents and 532 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 45694 is the largest ZIP in Scioto County by population, 12,530 residents (#2 of 14 county ZIPs), across 67.89 square miles (185/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Scioto County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Scioto County crime page linked below.

ZIP 45694 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Scioto County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 45694 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
$59,733
Median age
41.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
77%
Occupied homes
4,714

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 45694?

Within the participating-agency records for Scioto County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 66% below and property crime is 69% 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 45694. 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, 45694 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#2 of 14). Its 12,530 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Scioto County UCR book ZIP 45694 inherits

ZIP 45694 itself is about 185 people per Census sq mi across 67.9 sq mi (12,530 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 45694's 12,530 residents are about 16.9% of the 2024 county reporting population (74,008), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Scioto County leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses (mix index 3,533). ZIP 45694 has no separate FBI offense book.

Scioto County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +6% vs 2023; property counts -23% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Scioto 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 45694

Similar county violent rate (~120/100K)

Similar Census population (~12,530)

County detail: Scioto 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.