ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 37307

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

935
Property rate /100K (county)
5,073
Population (ZIP)
268
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 37307 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 37307 sits within Polk County, TN. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Polk County reported a violent-crime rate of 268 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 935 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 37307 is the largest ZIP in Polk County by population, 5,073 residents (#1 of 10 county ZIPs), across 57.53 square miles (88/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Polk County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Polk County crime page linked below.

ZIP 37307 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Polk County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 37307 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
$69,286
Median age
44.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
79%
Occupied homes
1,950

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 37307?

Within the participating-agency records for Polk County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 24% below and property crime is 45% 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 37307. 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, 37307 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 10). Its 5,073 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Polk County UCR book ZIP 37307 inherits

ZIP 37307 itself is about 88 people per Census sq mi across 57.5 sq mi (5,073 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 37307's 5,073 residents are about 28.9% of the 2024 county reporting population (17,544), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Polk County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 3,004). ZIP 37307 has no separate FBI offense book.

Polk County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +24% vs 2023; property counts -22% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Polk 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 37307

Similar county violent rate (~268/100K)

Similar Census population (~5,073)

County detail: Polk 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.