ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 37160

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

291
Property rate /100K (county)
36,057
Population (ZIP)
141
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 37160 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 37160 sits within Bedford 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: 141 violent incidents and 291 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 37160 carries a Census-reported population of 36,057, ranking #1 of 5 ZIPs in Bedford County, spread across 233.28 square miles (about 155 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Bedford County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Bedford County crime page linked below.

ZIP 37160 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Bedford County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 37160 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
$56,400
Median age
36.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
63%
Occupied homes
13,127
Median home value
$212,200
Bachelor's degree or higher
16.6%
Poverty rate
14.5%
Unemployment rate
4.8%

ZIP 37160's median home value of $212,200 sits higher than 69% of the 561 TN ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.

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 37160?

Within the participating-agency records for Bedford County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 60% below and property crime is 83% 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 37160. 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.

37160 is comparatively spread out at about 155 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.

Bedford County UCR book ZIP 37160 inherits

ZIP 37160 itself is about 155 people per Census sq mi across 233.3 sq mi (36,057 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 37160's 36,057 residents are about 71.8% of the 2024 county reporting population (50,237), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Bedford County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 3,090). ZIP 37160 has no separate FBI offense book.

Bedford County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -16% vs 2023; property counts -13% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Bedford 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 37160

Similar county violent rate (~141/100K)

Similar Census population (~36,057)

County detail: Bedford 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.