ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 38008

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

526
Property rate /100K (county)
8,567
Population (ZIP)
157
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 38008 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 38008 sits within Hardeman 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: 157 violent incidents and 526 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 38008 is the largest ZIP in Hardeman County by population, 8,567 residents (#1 of 8 county ZIPs), across 153.7 square miles (56/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Hardeman County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Hardeman County crime page linked below.

ZIP 38008 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Hardeman County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 38008 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
$40,313
Median age
42.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
67%
Occupied homes
3,679

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 38008?

Within the participating-agency records for Hardeman County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 55% below and property crime is 69% 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 38008. 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, 38008 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 8). Its 8,567 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Hardeman County UCR book ZIP 38008 inherits

ZIP 38008 itself is about 56 people per Census sq mi across 153.7 sq mi (8,567 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 38008's 8,567 residents are about 33.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (25,462), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Hardeman County keeps 7 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,485); larceny-theft still leads at 33%. ZIP 38008 inherits the county book.

Hardeman County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -42% vs 2023; property counts -9% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Hardeman 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 38008

Similar county violent rate (~157/100K)

Similar Census population (~8,567)

County detail: Hardeman 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.