ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 45761

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

258
Property rate /100K (county)
1,221
Population (ZIP)
42
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 45761 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 45761 sits within Athens 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.

Athens County reported a violent-crime rate of 42 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 258 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 26 reported violent incidents across a county population of 62,431, 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 45761 carries a Census-reported population of 1,221, ranking #6 of 14 ZIPs in Athens County, spread across 34.31 square miles (about 36 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Athens County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Athens County crime page linked below.

ZIP 45761 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Athens County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 45761 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
$40,398
Median age
57.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
86%
Occupied homes
674

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

Athens County UCR book ZIP 45761 inherits

ZIP 45761 itself is about 36 people per Census sq mi across 34.3 sq mi (1,221 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 45761 is about 2% of the county reporting population (1,221 of 62,431), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Athens County leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses (mix index 3,815). ZIP 45761 has no separate FBI offense book.

Athens County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -50% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Athens 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 45761

Similar county violent rate (~42/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,221)

County detail: Athens 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.