ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 45838
Van Wert County, Ohio: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 328
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 99
- Population (ZIP)
- 73
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 45838 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 45838 sits within Van Wert 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.
Van Wert County reported a violent-crime rate of 73 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 328 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 21 reported violent incidents across a county population of 28,931, 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.
With 99 residents, ZIP 45838 is among the smaller ZIPs in Van Wert County (#8 of 8 by population), spread across 0.08 square miles (1,238/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Van Wert County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Van Wert County crime page linked below.
ZIP 45838 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Van Wert County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 45838 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
- $83,561
- Median age
- 43.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 98%
- Occupied homes
- 44
- Median home value
- $98,200
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 0.0%
- Poverty rate
- 3.0%
- Unemployment rate
- 1.5%
ZIP 45838's median home value of $98,200 sits higher than 13% 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).
Van Wert County UCR book ZIP 45838 inherits
ZIP 45838 itself is about 1,238 people per Census sq mi across 0.1 sq mi (99 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 45838 is about 0.3% of the county reporting population (99 of 28,931), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Van Wert County leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses (mix index 3,664). ZIP 45838 has no separate FBI offense book.
Van Wert County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -7% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Van Wert 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 45838
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.