ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 38261

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

302
Property rate /100K (county)
16,325
Population (ZIP)
169
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 38261 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 38261 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 38261 is the largest ZIP in Obion County by population, 16,325 residents (#1 of 8 county ZIPs), across 176.9 square miles (92/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Obion County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Obion County crime page linked below.

ZIP 38261 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 38261 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
$50,576
Median age
41.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
60%
Occupied homes
6,550

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 38261?

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 38261. 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, 38261 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 8). Its 16,325 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Obion County UCR book ZIP 38261 inherits

ZIP 38261 itself is about 92 people per Census sq mi across 176.9 sq mi (16,325 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 38261's 16,325 residents are about 53% of the 2024 county reporting population (30,787), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Obion County leans on larceny-theft at 38% of reported offenses (mix index 2,940). ZIP 38261 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 38261

Similar county violent rate (~169/100K)

Similar Census population (~16,325)

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.