ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 38472

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

597
Property rate /100K (county)
2,463
Population (ZIP)
148
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 38472 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 38472 sits within Giles 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: 148 violent incidents and 597 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 38472 carries a Census-reported population of 2,463, ranking #3 of 6 ZIPs in Giles County, spread across 100.44 square miles (about 25 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Giles County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Giles County crime page linked below.

ZIP 38472 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Giles County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 38472 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
$65,319
Median age
47.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
85%
Occupied homes
886

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 38472?

Within the participating-agency records for Giles County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 58% below and property crime is 65% 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 38472. 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.

38472 is comparatively spread out at about 25 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.

Giles County UCR book ZIP 38472 inherits

ZIP 38472 itself is about 25 people per Census sq mi across 100.4 sq mi (2,463 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 38472 accounts for roughly 8.1% of the county reporting population (2,463 of 30,346).

Giles County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 3,085). ZIP 38472 has no separate FBI offense book.

Giles County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -2% vs 2023; property counts +2% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Giles 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 38472

Similar county violent rate (~148/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,463)

County detail: Giles 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.