ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 23838

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,503
Property rate /100K (county)
16,947
Population (ZIP)
175
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 23838 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 23838 sits within Chesterfield County, VA, 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: 175 violent incidents and 1,503 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 23838 carries a Census-reported population of 16,947, ranking #11 of 13 ZIPs in Chesterfield County, spread across 98.77 square miles (about 172 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Chesterfield County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Chesterfield County crime page linked below.

ZIP 23838 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Chesterfield County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 23838 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
$124,512
Median age
48.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
96%
Occupied homes
6,004

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 23838?

Within the participating-agency records for Chesterfield County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 50% below and property crime is 12% 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 23838. 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.

23838 is comparatively spread out at about 172 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

Chesterfield County UCR book ZIP 23838 inherits

ZIP 23838 itself is about 172 people per Census sq mi across 98.8 sq mi (16,947 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 23838 accounts for roughly 4.6% of the county reporting population (16,947 of 364,548).

Chesterfield County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 6,116 offenses; mix index 5,474). ZIP 23838 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Chesterfield 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 23838

Similar county violent rate (~175/100K)

Similar Census population (~16,947)

County detail: Chesterfield County · State atlas: Virginia

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.