ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 38565

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

838
Property rate /100K (county)
1,034
Population (ZIP)
411
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 38565 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 38565 sits within Fentress County, TN. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Fentress County reported a violent-crime rate of 411 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 838 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 38565 carries a Census-reported population of 1,034, ranking #3 of 5 ZIPs in Fentress County, spread across 10.35 square miles (about 100 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Fentress County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Fentress County crime page linked below.

ZIP 38565 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Fentress County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 38565 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
$39,750
Median age
36.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
94%
Occupied homes
375

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 38565?

Participating agencies give Fentress County a split reported profile: violent crime is 17% above the U.S. benchmark while property crime is 51% below it. A single "high" or "low" label would hide that difference; the submissions neither establish complete county coverage nor identify conditions within ZIP 38565. 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.

38565 is comparatively spread out at about 100 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.

Fentress County UCR book ZIP 38565 inherits

ZIP 38565 itself is about 100 people per Census sq mi across 10.4 sq mi (1,034 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 38565 accounts for roughly 5.6% of the county reporting population (1,034 of 18,489).

Fentress County leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses (mix index 2,960). ZIP 38565 has no separate FBI offense book.

Fentress County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +55% vs 2023; property counts +2% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Fentress 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 38565

Similar county violent rate (~411/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,034)

County detail: Fentress 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.