ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 38343

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

155
Property rate /100K (county)
15,763
Population (ZIP)
75
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 38343 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 38343 sits within Gibson 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: 75 violent incidents and 155 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 38343 is the largest ZIP in Gibson County by population, 15,763 residents (#1 of 9 county ZIPs), across 142 square miles (111/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Gibson County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Gibson County crime page linked below.

ZIP 38343 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Gibson County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 38343 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
$51,843
Median age
43.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
65%
Occupied homes
6,551
Median home value
$134,600
Bachelor's degree or higher
20.8%
Poverty rate
12.2%
Unemployment rate
6.0%

ZIP 38343's median home value of $134,600 sits higher than 29% 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 38343?

Within the participating-agency records for Gibson County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 79% below and property crime is 91% 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 38343. 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, 38343 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 9). Its 15,763 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Gibson County UCR book ZIP 38343 inherits

ZIP 38343 itself is about 111 people per Census sq mi across 142 sq mi (15,763 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 38343's 15,763 residents are about 31.3% of the 2024 county reporting population (50,429), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Gibson County leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses (mix index 2,922). ZIP 38343 has no separate FBI offense book.

Gibson County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +19% vs 2023; property counts -30% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Gibson 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 38343

Similar county violent rate (~75/100K)

Similar Census population (~15,763)

County detail: Gibson 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.