ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 37149
Rutherford County, Tennessee: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 125
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 2,130
- Population (ZIP)
- 72
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 37149 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 37149 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.
With 2,130 residents, ZIP 37149 is among the smaller ZIPs in Rutherford County (#12 of 13 by population), spread across 64.15 square miles (33/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 37149 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 37149 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
- $65,881
- Median age
- 53.0 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 92%
- Occupied homes
- 911
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 37149?
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 37149. 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, 37149 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#12 of 13). 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.
Rutherford County UCR book ZIP 37149 inherits
ZIP 37149 itself is about 33 people per Census sq mi across 64.2 sq mi (2,130 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 37149 is about 0.6% of the county reporting population (2,130 of 341,486), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Rutherford County leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 3,129). ZIP 37149 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 37149
Similar county violent rate (~72/100K)
- ZIP 24128, VA · 71.5/100K · Giles County
- ZIP 42349, KY · 71.5/100K · Ohio County
- ZIP 27326, NC · 71.4/100K · Rockingham County
- ZIP 70532, LA · 71.3/100K · Jefferson Davis County
Similar Census population (~2,130)
- ZIP 35463, AL · 2,130 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 54026, WI · 2,130 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 43554, OH · 2,129 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 59523, MT · 2,131 pop · Δ1
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.