ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 46798
Allen County, Indiana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 165
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 1,051
- Population (ZIP)
- 27
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 46798 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 46798 sits within Allen County, IN, 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: 27 violent incidents and 165 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
With 1,051 residents, ZIP 46798 is among the smaller ZIPs in Allen County (#25 of 26 by population), spread across 18.17 square miles (58/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 46798 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 46798 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
- $74,598
- Median age
- 34.0 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 78%
- Occupied homes
- 430
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 46798?
Within the participating-agency records for Allen County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 92% below and property crime is 90% 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 46798. 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, 46798 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#25 of 26). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.
Allen County UCR book ZIP 46798 inherits
ZIP 46798 itself is about 58 people per Census sq mi across 18.2 sq mi (1,051 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 46798 is about 0.3% of the county reporting population (1,051 of 385,410), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Allen County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 738 offenses; mix index 5,038). ZIP 46798 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Allen County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +76% vs 2023; property counts +8% 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 46798
Similar county violent rate (~27/100K)
- ZIP 05444, VT · 27/100K · Lamoille County
- ZIP 42123, KY · 27/100K · Barren County
- ZIP 71480, LA · 27/100K · La Salle County
- ZIP 73481, OK · 27.1/100K · Carter County
Similar Census population (~1,051)
- ZIP 17774, PA · 1,051 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 52572, IA · 1,051 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 84033, UT · 1,051 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 17508, PA · 1,052 pop · Δ1
County detail: Allen County · State atlas: Indiana
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.