ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 38857
Lee County, Mississippi: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 439
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 4,536
- Population (ZIP)
- 61
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 38857 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 38857 sits within Lee County, MS, 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: 61 violent incidents and 439 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 38857 carries a Census-reported population of 4,536, ranking #6 of 8 ZIPs in Lee County, spread across 18.98 square miles (about 239 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Lee County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Lee County crime page linked below.
ZIP 38857 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Lee County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 38857 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
- $96,379
- Median age
- 34.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 83%
- Occupied homes
- 1,400
- Median home value
- $179,100
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 32.5%
- Poverty rate
- 9.9%
- Unemployment rate
- 12.3%
ZIP 38857's median home value of $179,100 sits higher than 84% of the 187 MS 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).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 38857?
Within the participating-agency records for Lee County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 83% below and property crime is 74% 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 38857. 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.
38857 is comparatively spread out at about 239 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.
Lee County UCR book ZIP 38857 inherits
ZIP 38857 itself is about 239 people per Census sq mi across 19 sq mi (4,536 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 38857 accounts for roughly 5.4% of the county reporting population (4,536 of 83,343).
Lee County leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses (mix index 3,691). ZIP 38857 has no separate FBI offense book.
Lee County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -33% vs 2023; property counts -18% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Lee 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 38857
Similar county violent rate (~61/100K)
- ZIP 63766, MO · 61.2/100K · Cape Girardeau County
- ZIP 78118, TX · 61.2/100K · Karnes County
- ZIP 35549, AL · 61.3/100K · Fayette County
- ZIP 46543, IN · 61.3/100K · Elkhart County
Similar Census population (~4,536)
- ZIP 60552, IL · 4,538 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 85147, AZ · 4,538 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 45732, OH · 4,539 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 50124, IA · 4,539 pop · Δ3
County detail: Lee 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.