ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 37142

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

176
Property rate /100K (county)
1,516
Population (ZIP)
83
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 37142 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 37142 sits within Montgomery 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: 83 violent incidents and 176 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

With 1,516 residents, ZIP 37142 is among the smaller ZIPs in Montgomery County (#8 of 8 by population), spread across 37.23 square miles (41/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Montgomery County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Montgomery County crime page linked below.

ZIP 37142 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Montgomery County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 37142 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
$40,357
Median age
54.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
88%
Occupied homes
636

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 37142?

Within the participating-agency records for Montgomery County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 76% below and property crime is 90% 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 37142. 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, 37142 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#8 of 8). 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.

Montgomery County UCR book ZIP 37142 inherits

ZIP 37142 itself is about 41 people per Census sq mi across 37.2 sq mi (1,516 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 37142 is about 0.7% of the county reporting population (1,516 of 220,069), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Montgomery County leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 3,202). ZIP 37142 has no separate FBI offense book.

Montgomery County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +81% vs 2023; property counts -3% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Montgomery 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 37142

Similar county violent rate (~83/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,516)

County detail: Montgomery 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.