ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 38256

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

494
Property rate /100K (county)
3,055
Population (ZIP)
106
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 38256 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 38256 sits within Henry 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: 106 violent incidents and 494 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 38256 carries a Census-reported population of 3,055, ranking #3 of 7 ZIPs in Henry County, spread across 67.71 square miles (about 45 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Henry County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Henry County crime page linked below.

ZIP 38256 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Henry County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 38256 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
$52,535
Median age
56.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
83%
Occupied homes
1,480

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 38256?

Within the participating-agency records for Henry County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 70% below and property crime is 71% 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 38256. 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.

38256 is comparatively spread out at about 45 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.

Henry County UCR book ZIP 38256 inherits

ZIP 38256 itself is about 45 people per Census sq mi across 67.7 sq mi (3,055 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 38256 accounts for roughly 9.5% of the county reporting population (3,055 of 32,199).

Henry County leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses (mix index 3,559). ZIP 38256 has no separate FBI offense book.

Henry County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -13% vs 2023; property counts -10% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Henry 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 38256

Similar county violent rate (~106/100K)

Similar Census population (~3,055)

County detail: Henry 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.