What is the crime rate for ZIP code 37765?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code. ZIP 37765 is located in Hancock County, TN, which reported a violent-crime rate of 180 per 100,000 residents in 2024. This is the county's rate, the closest official FBI UCR figure available for this ZIP code. That figure is based on a small reported count and should be treated as a data point, not a precise ranking.

What county is ZIP code 37765 in?

ZIP code 37765 is located in Hancock County, TN.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 37765

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,291
Property rate /100K (county): 734
Population (ZIP): 180
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 37765 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 37765 sits within Hancock 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.

Hancock County reported a violent-crime rate of 180 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 1,291 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 12 reported violent incidents across a county population of 6,662, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

With 734 residents, ZIP 37765 is among the smaller ZIPs in Hancock County (#2 of 2 by population), spread across 19.49 square miles (38/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Hancock County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Hancock County crime page linked below.

ZIP 37765 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Hancock County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 37765 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: $46,250
Median age: 47.1 years
Owner-occupied homes: 96%
Occupied homes: 236

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

Hancock County UCR book ZIP 37765 inherits

ZIP 37765 itself is about 38 people per Census sq mi across 19.5 sq mi (734 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 37765 accounts for roughly 11% of the county reporting population (734 of 6,662).

Hancock County leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses (mix index 3,529). ZIP 37765 has no separate FBI offense book.

Hancock County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -14% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Hancock County offense mix (2024)

Larceny-Theft 49 offenses (50%) Burglary 28 offenses (29%) Aggravated Assault 11 offenses (11%) Motor Vehicle Theft 9 offenses (9%) Rape 1 offenses (1%)

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 37765

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.