ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 16938

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

808
Population (ZIP)
0
Violent rate /100K (county)
0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 16938 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 16938 sits within Tioga County, PA, 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 16938 carries a Census-reported population of 808, ranking #15 of 21 ZIPs in Tioga County, spread across 106.3 square miles (about 8 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Tioga County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Tioga County crime page linked below.

ZIP 16938 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Tioga County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 16938 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
$68,750
Median age
53.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
91%
Occupied homes
363
Median home value
$173,300
Bachelor's degree or higher
21.6%
Poverty rate
3.3%
Unemployment rate
1.1%

ZIP 16938's median home value of $173,300 sits higher than 43% of the 1,088 PA 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).

ZIP 16938 settlement vs Tioga County

ZIP 16938 itself is about 8 people per Census sq mi across 106.3 sq mi (808 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 16938 is about 2% of the county reporting population (808 of 41,045), 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 16938

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.