ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 37326
Polk County, Tennessee: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 935
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 467
- Population (ZIP)
- 268
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 37326 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 37326 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 37326 carries a Census-reported population of 467, ranking #7 of 10 ZIPs in Polk County, spread across 1.77 square miles (about 264 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Polk County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Polk County crime page linked below.
ZIP 37326 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 37326 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 age
- 57.9 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 38%
- Occupied homes
- 246
- Median home value
- $119,200
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 5.6%
- Poverty rate
- 42.3%
- Unemployment rate
- 20.0%
ZIP 37326's median home value of $119,200 sits higher than 19% 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 37326?
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 37326. 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.
ZIP 37326 sits near the middle of Polk County's ZIP population ordering (#7 of 10). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Polk County UCR book ZIP 37326 inherits
ZIP 37326 itself is about 264 people per Census sq mi across 1.8 sq mi (467 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 37326 accounts for roughly 2.7% of the county reporting population (467 of 17,544).
Polk County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 3,004). ZIP 37326 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.
Read with ZIP 37326
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.