ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 33438
Martin County, Florida: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 734
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 609
- Population (ZIP)
- 156
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 33438 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 33438 sits within Martin County, FL, 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: 156 violent incidents and 734 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
With 609 residents, ZIP 33438 is among the smaller ZIPs in Martin County (#9 of 9 by population), spread across 39.33 square miles (15/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Martin County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Martin County crime page linked below.
ZIP 33438 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Martin County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 33438 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
- $70,577
- Median age
- 40.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 71%
- Occupied homes
- 196
- Median home value
- $87,100
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 15.8%
- Poverty rate
- 13.1%
- Unemployment rate
- 23.7%
ZIP 33438's median home value of $87,100 is lower than 98% of the 590 FL 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).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 33438?
Within the participating-agency records for Martin County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 56% below and property crime is 57% 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 33438. 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, 33438 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#9 of 9). 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.
Martin County UCR book ZIP 33438 inherits
ZIP 33438 itself is about 15 people per Census sq mi across 39.3 sq mi (609 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 33438 is about 0.4% of the county reporting population (609 of 158,431), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Martin County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 1,410 offenses; mix index 5,168). ZIP 33438 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Martin County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -13% vs 2023; property counts -10% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Martin 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 33438
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.