ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 38655

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

174
Property rate /100K (county)
45,290
Population (ZIP)
45
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 38655 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 38655 sits within Lafayette County, MS. 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.

Lafayette County reported a violent-crime rate of 45 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 174 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 25 reported violent incidents across a county population of 55,813, 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 38655 carries a Census-reported population of 45,290, ranking #1 of 6 ZIPs in Lafayette County, spread across 362.13 square miles (about 125 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Lafayette County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Lafayette County crime page linked below.

ZIP 38655 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Lafayette County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 38655 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
$59,963
Median age
32.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
61%
Occupied homes
16,455

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

Lafayette County UCR book ZIP 38655 inherits

ZIP 38655 itself is about 125 people per Census sq mi across 362.1 sq mi (45,290 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 38655's 45,290 residents are about 81.1% of the 2024 county reporting population (55,813), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Lafayette County leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses (mix index 2,935). ZIP 38655 has no separate FBI offense book.

Lafayette County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -29% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Lafayette 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 38655

Similar county violent rate (~45/100K)

Similar Census population (~45,290)

County detail: Lafayette County · State atlas: Mississippi

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.