ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 08038

Salem County, New Jersey: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-09-05

380
Population (ZIP)
0
Violent rate /100K (county)
0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 08038 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 08038 sits within Salem County, NJ, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.

ZIP 08038 carries a Census-reported population of 380, ranking #9 of 11 ZIPs in Salem County, spread across 17.42 square miles (about 22 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Salem County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Salem County crime page linked below.

ZIP 08038 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Salem County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 08038 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
$87,083
Median age
37.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
55%
Occupied homes
157
Median home value
$159,300
Bachelor's degree or higher
3.0%
Poverty rate
3.0%
Unemployment rate
5.9%

ZIP 08038's median home value of $159,300 is lower than 97% of the 518 NJ ZIPs with a reported value, among the most affordable in the state by this measure.

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

ZIP 08038 settlement vs Salem County

ZIP 08038 itself is about 22 people per Census sq mi across 17.4 sq mi (380 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 08038 is about 0.6% of the county reporting population (380 of 64,837), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.

Read with ZIP 08038

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.

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.