ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 37803

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

260
Property rate /100K (county)
33,061
Population (ZIP)
245
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 37803 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 37803 sits within Blount County, TN, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Blount County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 245 violent and 260 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 37803 is the largest ZIP in Blount County by population, 33,061 residents (#1 of 10 county ZIPs), across 87.75 square miles (377/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Blount County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Blount County crime page linked below.

ZIP 37803 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Blount County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 37803 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
$76,703
Median age
47.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
82%
Occupied homes
13,321

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 37803?

Within the participating-agency records for Blount County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 30% below and property crime is 85% 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 37803. 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, 37803 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 10). Its 33,061 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Blount County UCR book ZIP 37803 inherits

ZIP 37803 itself is about 377 people per Census sq mi across 87.8 sq mi (33,061 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 37803's 33,061 residents are about 24.4% of the 2024 county reporting population (135,280), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Blount County leans on aggravated assault at 41% of reported offenses (mix index 2,849). ZIP 37803 has no separate FBI offense book.

Blount County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +19% vs 2023; property counts -26% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Blount 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 37803

Similar county violent rate (~245/100K)

Similar Census population (~33,061)

County detail: Blount 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.