ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 45805

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

430
Property rate /100K (county)
24,679
Population (ZIP)
77
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 45805 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 45805 sits within Allen 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: 77 violent incidents and 430 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 45805 is the largest ZIP in Allen County by population, 24,679 residents (#1 of 13 county ZIPs), across 14.57 square miles (1,694/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Allen County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Allen County crime page linked below.

ZIP 45805 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Allen County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 45805 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
$62,034
Median age
35.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
61%
Occupied homes
9,844

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 45805?

Within the participating-agency records for Allen County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 78% below and property crime is 75% 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 45805. 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, 45805 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 13). Its 24,679 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Allen County UCR book ZIP 45805 inherits

ZIP 45805 itself is about 1,694 people per Census sq mi across 14.6 sq mi (24,679 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 45805's 24,679 residents are about 24.1% of the 2024 county reporting population (102,206), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Allen County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 518 offenses; mix index 4,487). ZIP 45805 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Allen County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts flat vs 2023; property counts -35% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Allen 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 45805

Similar county violent rate (~77/100K)

Similar Census population (~24,679)

County detail: Allen 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.