ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 37642
Hawkins County, Tennessee: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 448
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 15,138
- Population (ZIP)
- 90
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 37642 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 37642 sits within Hawkins 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: 90 violent incidents and 448 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 37642 carries a Census-reported population of 15,138, ranking #2 of 7 ZIPs in Hawkins County, spread across 56.23 square miles (about 269 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Hawkins County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Hawkins County crime page linked below.
ZIP 37642 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Hawkins County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 37642 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
- $59,525
- Median age
- 43.3 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 80%
- Occupied homes
- 6,028
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 37642?
Within the participating-agency records for Hawkins County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 74% below and property crime is 74% 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 37642. 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 37642 sits near the middle of Hawkins County's ZIP population ordering (#2 of 7). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Hawkins County UCR book ZIP 37642 inherits
ZIP 37642 itself is about 269 people per Census sq mi across 56.2 sq mi (15,138 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 37642's 15,138 residents are about 26.7% of the 2024 county reporting population (56,721), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Hawkins County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 2,971). ZIP 37642 has no separate FBI offense book.
Hawkins County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +38% vs 2023; property counts +3% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Hawkins 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 37642
Similar county violent rate (~90/100K)
- ZIP 97470, OR · 89.9/100K · Douglas County
- ZIP 28168, NC · 89.9/100K · Lincoln County
- ZIP 74848, OK · 89.8/100K · Hughes County
- ZIP 93950, CA · 89.7/100K · Monterey County
Similar Census population (~15,138)
- ZIP 67235, KS · 15,138 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 07524, NJ · 15,139 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 68132, NE · 15,136 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 98467, WA · 15,140 pop · Δ2
County detail: Hawkins 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.