ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 38042
Hardeman County, Tennessee: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 526
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 655
- Population (ZIP)
- 157
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 38042 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 38042 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.
With 655 residents, ZIP 38042 is among the smaller ZIPs in Hardeman County (#7 of 8 by population), spread across 51.37 square miles (13/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 38042 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 38042 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
- $45,329
- Median age
- 53.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 76%
- Occupied homes
- 307
- Median home value
- $138,600
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 19.2%
- Poverty rate
- 5.3%
- Unemployment rate
- 21.5%
ZIP 38042's median home value of $138,600 sits higher than 31% of the 561 TN ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 38042?
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 38042. 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, 38042 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#7 of 8). 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.
Hardeman County UCR book ZIP 38042 inherits
ZIP 38042 itself is about 13 people per Census sq mi across 51.4 sq mi (655 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 38042 accounts for roughly 2.6% of the county reporting population (655 of 25,462).
Hardeman County keeps 7 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,485); larceny-theft still leads at 33%. ZIP 38042 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.
Read with ZIP 38042
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.