ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 38626
Tunica County, Mississippi: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 3,915
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 966
- Population (ZIP)
- 521
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 38626 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 38626 sits within Tunica County, MS, a county whose reported crime runs above the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Tunica County's reported crime sits somewhat above the national average: 521 violent and 3,915 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
With 966 residents, ZIP 38626 is among the smaller ZIPs in Tunica County (#3 of 3 by population), spread across 169.18 square miles (6/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Tunica County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Tunica County crime page linked below.
ZIP 38626 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Tunica County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 38626 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
- $40,324
- Median age
- 59.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 88%
- Occupied homes
- 467
- Median home value
- $304,900
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 32.2%
- Poverty rate
- 31.2%
- Unemployment rate
- 1.3%
ZIP 38626's median home value of $304,900 is higher than 99% of the 187 MS ZIPs with a reported value, one of the priciest in the state by this measure.
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 38626?
Within the participating-agency records for Tunica County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit above their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 48% above and property crime is 129% above. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or locate crime inside ZIP 38626. 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, 38626 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#3 of 3). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.
Tunica County UCR book ZIP 38626 inherits
ZIP 38626 itself is about 6 people per Census sq mi across 169.2 sq mi (966 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 38626 accounts for roughly 9.9% of the county reporting population (966 of 9,782).
Tunica County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 434 offenses; mix index 4,745). ZIP 38626 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Tunica County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -35% vs 2023; property counts -23% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Tunica 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.
Read with ZIP 38626
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.