ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 37687

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

726
Property rate /100K (county)
4,159
Population (ZIP)
208
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 37687 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 37687 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.

ZIP 37687 carries a Census-reported population of 4,159, ranking #2 of 5 ZIPs in Carter County, spread across 95.26 square miles (about 44 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Carter County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Carter County crime page linked below.

ZIP 37687 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 37687 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
$47,629
Median age
48.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
88%
Occupied homes
1,681

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 37687?

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 37687. 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.

37687 is comparatively spread out at about 44 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.

Carter County UCR book ZIP 37687 inherits

ZIP 37687 itself is about 44 people per Census sq mi across 95.3 sq mi (4,159 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 37687 accounts for roughly 7.4% of the county reporting population (4,159 of 56,356).

Carter County leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 2,941). ZIP 37687 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.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 37687

Similar county violent rate (~208/100K)

Similar Census population (~4,159)

County detail: Carter 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.