ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 37880

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

792
Property rate /100K (county)
3,717
Population (ZIP)
267
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 37880 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 37880 sits within Meigs 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.

Meigs County reported a violent-crime rate of 267 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 792 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

With 3,717 residents, ZIP 37880 is among the smaller ZIPs in Meigs County (#2 of 2 by population), spread across 73.6 square miles (51/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Meigs County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Meigs County crime page linked below.

ZIP 37880 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Meigs County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 37880 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
$61,902
Median age
51.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
84%
Occupied homes
1,533

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 37880?

Within the participating-agency records for Meigs County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 24% below and property crime is 54% 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 37880. 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, 37880 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#2 of 2). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.

Meigs County UCR book ZIP 37880 inherits

ZIP 37880 itself is about 51 people per Census sq mi across 73.6 sq mi (3,717 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 37880's 3,717 residents are about 29.1% of the 2024 county reporting population (12,758), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Meigs County leans on larceny-theft at 39% of reported offenses (mix index 2,756). ZIP 37880 has no separate FBI offense book.

Meigs County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +17% vs 2023; property counts -26% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Meigs 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 37880

Similar county violent rate (~267/100K)

Similar Census population (~3,717)

County detail: Meigs 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.