ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 37769
Anderson County, Tennessee: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 306
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 5,469
- Population (ZIP)
- 86
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 37769 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 37769 sits within Anderson 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: 86 violent incidents and 306 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 37769 carries a Census-reported population of 5,469, ranking #4 of 7 ZIPs in Anderson County, spread across 30.02 square miles (about 182 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Anderson County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Anderson County crime page linked below.
ZIP 37769 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Anderson County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 37769 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
- $48,750
- Median age
- 43.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 70%
- Occupied homes
- 2,379
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 37769?
Within the participating-agency records for Anderson County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 76% below and property crime is 82% 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 37769. 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.
37769 is comparatively spread out at about 182 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.
Anderson County UCR book ZIP 37769 inherits
ZIP 37769 itself is about 182 people per Census sq mi across 30 sq mi (5,469 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 37769 accounts for roughly 7.1% of the county reporting population (5,469 of 77,123).
Anderson County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 2,942). ZIP 37769 has no separate FBI offense book.
Anderson County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -44% vs 2023; property counts -14% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Anderson 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 37769
Similar county violent rate (~86/100K)
- ZIP 28594, NC · 85.7/100K · Carteret County
- ZIP 59068, MT · 85.9/100K · Carbon County
- ZIP 49682, MI · 85.2/100K · Leelanau County
- ZIP 75844, TX · 86.1/100K · Houston County
Similar Census population (~5,469)
- ZIP 44272, OH · 5,468 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 79838, TX · 5,470 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 93240, CA · 5,470 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 20622, MD · 5,471 pop · Δ2
County detail: Anderson 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.