ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 37843

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

800
Property rate /100K (county)
4,549
Population (ZIP)
300
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 37843 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 37843 sits within Cocke 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.

Cocke County reported a violent-crime rate of 300 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 800 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 37843 carries a Census-reported population of 4,549, ranking #3 of 6 ZIPs in Cocke County, spread across 52.71 square miles (about 86 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Cocke County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cocke County crime page linked below.

ZIP 37843 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Cocke County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 37843 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
$64,474
Median age
43.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
78%
Occupied homes
1,911

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 37843?

Within the participating-agency records for Cocke County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 15% below and property crime is 53% 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 37843. 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.

37843 is comparatively spread out at about 86 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.

Cocke County UCR book ZIP 37843 inherits

ZIP 37843 itself is about 86 people per Census sq mi across 52.7 sq mi (4,549 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 37843 accounts for roughly 12.6% of the county reporting population (4,549 of 35,999).

Cocke County leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 2,857). ZIP 37843 has no separate FBI offense book.

Cocke County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -30% vs 2023; property counts -13% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Cocke 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 37843

Similar county violent rate (~300/100K)

Similar Census population (~4,549)

County detail: Cocke 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.