ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 37128

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

125
Property rate /100K (county)
73,657
Population (ZIP)
72
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 37128 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 37128 sits within Rutherford 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: 72 violent incidents and 125 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 37128 is the largest ZIP in Rutherford County by population, 73,657 residents (#1 of 13 county ZIPs), across 56.67 square miles (1,300/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Rutherford County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Rutherford County crime page linked below.

ZIP 37128 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Rutherford County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 37128 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
$85,544
Median age
32.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
66%
Occupied homes
26,411
Median home value
$329,400
Bachelor's degree or higher
38.7%
Poverty rate
5.2%
Unemployment rate
3.1%

ZIP 37128's median home value of $329,400 is higher than 92% of the 561 TN ZIPs with a reported value, one of the priciest 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 37128?

Within the participating-agency records for Rutherford County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 80% below and property crime is 93% 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 37128. 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, 37128 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 13). Its 73,657 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Rutherford County UCR book ZIP 37128 inherits

ZIP 37128 itself is about 1,300 people per Census sq mi across 56.7 sq mi (73,657 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 37128's 73,657 residents are about 21.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (341,486), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Rutherford County leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 3,129). ZIP 37128 has no separate FBI offense book.

Rutherford County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -9% vs 2023; property counts -1% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Rutherford 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 37128

Similar county violent rate (~72/100K)

Similar Census population (~73,657)

County detail: Rutherford 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.