ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 37682
Carter County, Tennessee: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 726
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 520
- Population (ZIP)
- 208
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 37682 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 37682 sits within Carter County, TN, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Carter County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 208 violent and 726 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
With 520 residents, ZIP 37682 is among the smaller ZIPs in Carter County (#5 of 5 by population), spread across 0.1 square miles (5,200/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Carter County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Carter County crime page linked below.
ZIP 37682 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Carter County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 37682 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
- 20.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 100%
- Occupied homes
- 42
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 54.3%
- Poverty rate
- 0.0%
- Unemployment rate
- 0.0%
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 37682?
Within the participating-agency records for Carter County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 41% below and property crime is 58% 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 37682. 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, 37682 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#5 of 5). 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.
Carter County UCR book ZIP 37682 inherits
ZIP 37682 itself is about 5,200 people per Census sq mi across 0.1 sq mi (520 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 37682 is about 0.9% of the county reporting population (520 of 56,356), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Carter County leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 2,941). ZIP 37682 has no separate FBI offense book.
Carter County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -8% vs 2023; property counts -17% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Carter 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 37682
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.