ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 38257

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

302
Property rate /100K (county)
4,344
Population (ZIP)
169
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 38257 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 38257 sits within Obion 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: 169 violent incidents and 302 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 38257 carries a Census-reported population of 4,344, ranking #2 of 8 ZIPs in Obion County, spread across 55.41 square miles (about 78 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Obion County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Obion County crime page linked below.

ZIP 38257 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Obion County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 38257 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
$54,170
Median age
46.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
70%
Occupied homes
1,853
Median home value
$112,900
Bachelor's degree or higher
18.9%
Poverty rate
15.9%
Unemployment rate
3.5%

ZIP 38257's median home value of $112,900 sits higher than 14% 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 38257?

Within the participating-agency records for Obion County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 52% below and property crime is 82% 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 38257. 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.

38257 is comparatively spread out at about 78 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.

Obion County UCR book ZIP 38257 inherits

ZIP 38257 itself is about 78 people per Census sq mi across 55.4 sq mi (4,344 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 38257 accounts for roughly 14.1% of the county reporting population (4,344 of 30,787).

Obion County leans on larceny-theft at 38% of reported offenses (mix index 2,940). ZIP 38257 has no separate FBI offense book.

Obion County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +30% vs 2023; property counts -38% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Obion 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 38257

Similar county violent rate (~169/100K)

Similar Census population (~4,344)

County detail: Obion 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.