ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 38221

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

485
Property rate /100K (county)
3,042
Population (ZIP)
208
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 38221 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 38221 sits within Benton County, TN, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Benton County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 208 violent and 485 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 38221 carries a Census-reported population of 3,042, ranking #2 of 4 ZIPs in Benton County, spread across 108.45 square miles (about 28 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Benton County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Benton County crime page linked below.

ZIP 38221 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Benton County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 38221 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
$50,208
Median age
53.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
76%
Occupied homes
1,313

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 38221?

Within the participating-agency records for Benton County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 41% below and property crime is 72% 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 38221. 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.

38221 is comparatively spread out at about 28 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.

Benton County UCR book ZIP 38221 inherits

ZIP 38221 itself is about 28 people per Census sq mi across 108.5 sq mi (3,042 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 38221's 3,042 residents are about 19.2% of the 2024 county reporting population (15,864), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Benton County leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses (mix index 2,804). ZIP 38221 has no separate FBI offense book.

Benton County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -13% vs 2023; property counts -4% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Benton 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 38221

Similar county violent rate (~208/100K)

Similar Census population (~3,042)

County detail: Benton 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.