ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 23138

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

762
Property rate /100K (county)
853
Population (ZIP)
106
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 23138 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 23138 sits within Mathews County, VA. 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.

Mathews County reported a violent-crime rate of 106 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 762 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 9 reported violent incidents across a county population of 8,533, 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.

ZIP 23138 carries a Census-reported population of 853, ranking #3 of 15 ZIPs in Mathews County, spread across 11.33 square miles (about 75 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Mathews County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Mathews County crime page linked below.

ZIP 23138 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Mathews County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 23138 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
$93,663
Median age
48.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
86%
Occupied homes
386
Median home value
$262,800
Bachelor's degree or higher
36.2%
Poverty rate
2.3%
Unemployment rate
0.0%

ZIP 23138's median home value of $262,800 sits higher than 57% of the 717 VA 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).

Mathews County UCR book ZIP 23138 inherits

ZIP 23138 itself is about 75 people per Census sq mi across 11.3 sq mi (853 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 23138 accounts for roughly 10% of the county reporting population (853 of 8,533).

Mathews County leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses (mix index 3,915). ZIP 23138 has no separate FBI offense book.

Mathews County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -7% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Mathews 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 23138

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.