ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 38133
Shelby County, Tennessee: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 286
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 21,383
- Population (ZIP)
- 68
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 38133 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 38133 sits within Shelby 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: 68 violent incidents and 286 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 38133 carries a Census-reported population of 21,383, ranking #24 of 38 ZIPs in Shelby County, spread across 12.98 square miles (about 1,647 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Shelby County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Shelby County crime page linked below.
ZIP 38133 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Shelby County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 38133 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
- $74,775
- Median age
- 35.9 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 70%
- Occupied homes
- 7,840
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 38133?
Within the participating-agency records for Shelby County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 81% below and property crime is 83% 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 38133. 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.
ZIP 38133 sits near the middle of Shelby County's ZIP population ordering (#24 of 38). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Shelby County UCR book ZIP 38133 inherits
ZIP 38133 itself is about 1,647 people per Census sq mi across 13 sq mi (21,383 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 38133 accounts for roughly 2.3% of the county reporting population (21,383 of 929,744).
Shelby County leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 3,142). ZIP 38133 has no separate FBI offense book.
Shelby County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +3% vs 2023; property counts -4% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Shelby 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 38133
Similar county violent rate (~68/100K)
- ZIP 49735, MI · 67.8/100K · Otsego County
- ZIP 21704, MD · 67.7/100K · Frederick County
- ZIP 38916, MS · 67.8/100K · Calhoun County
- ZIP 79556, TX · 67.9/100K · Nolan County
Similar Census population (~21,383)
- ZIP 48182, MI · 21,391 pop · Δ8
- ZIP 75218, TX · 21,393 pop · Δ10
- ZIP 60164, IL · 21,371 pop · Δ12
- ZIP 76111, TX · 21,366 pop · Δ17
County detail: Shelby 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.