ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 37083

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

175
Violent rate /100K (county)
15,790
Population (ZIP)
52
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 37083 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 37083 sits within Macon County, TN, 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 52 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 37083 carries a Census-reported population of 15,790, ranking #1 of 2 ZIPs in Macon County, spread across 147.64 square miles (about 107 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Macon County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Macon County crime page linked below.

ZIP 37083 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Macon County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 37083 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
$54,796
Median age
39.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
73%
Occupied homes
5,878

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 37083?

Within the participating-agency records for Macon County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 50% below and property crime is 97% 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 37083. 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.

37083 is comparatively spread out at about 107 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.

Macon County UCR book ZIP 37083 inherits

ZIP 37083 itself is about 107 people per Census sq mi across 147.6 sq mi (15,790 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 37083's 15,790 residents are about 62.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (25,216), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Macon County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (72% of 57 offenses; mix index 5,485). ZIP 37083 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Macon County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -4% vs 2023; property counts -54% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Macon 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 37083

Similar county violent rate (~175/100K)

Similar Census population (~15,790)

County detail: Macon County · State atlas: Tennessee

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.