ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 45820
Allen County, Ohio: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 430
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 645
- Population (ZIP)
- 77
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 45820 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 45820 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 45820 carries a Census-reported population of 645, ranking #10 of 13 ZIPs in Allen County, spread across 0.28 square miles (about 2,304 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Allen County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Allen County crime page linked below.
ZIP 45820 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 45820 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
- $65,962
- Median age
- 35.0 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 82%
- Occupied homes
- 246
- Median home value
- $99,200
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 14.9%
- Poverty rate
- 7.8%
- Unemployment rate
- 3.3%
ZIP 45820's median home value of $99,200 sits higher than 14% of the 982 OH ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 45820?
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 45820. 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 45820 sits near the middle of Allen County's ZIP population ordering (#10 of 13). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Allen County UCR book ZIP 45820 inherits
ZIP 45820 itself is about 2,304 people per Census sq mi across 0.3 sq mi (645 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 45820 is about 0.6% of the county reporting population (645 of 102,206), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Allen County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 518 offenses; mix index 4,487). ZIP 45820 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.
Read with ZIP 45820
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.