ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 38585

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

535
Property rate /100K (county)
4,643
Population (ZIP)
114
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 38585 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 38585 sits within Van Buren 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.

Van Buren County reported a violent-crime rate of 114 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 535 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 7 reported violent incidents across a county population of 6,168, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

ZIP 38585 carries a Census-reported population of 4,643, ranking #1 of 2 ZIPs in Van Buren County, spread across 185.04 square miles (about 25 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Van Buren County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Van Buren County crime page linked below.

ZIP 38585 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Van Buren County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 38585 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
$43,247
Median age
42.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
76%
Occupied homes
1,737
Median home value
$126,200
Bachelor's degree or higher
8.6%
Poverty rate
18.7%
Unemployment rate
4.8%

ZIP 38585's median home value of $126,200 sits higher than 23% 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).

Van Buren County UCR book ZIP 38585 inherits

ZIP 38585 itself is about 25 people per Census sq mi across 185 sq mi (4,643 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 38585's 4,643 residents are about 75.3% of the 2024 county reporting population (6,168), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Van Buren County leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses (mix index 3,450). ZIP 38585 has no separate FBI offense book.

Van Buren County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +83% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Van Buren 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 38585

Similar Census population (~4,643)

County detail: Van Buren 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.