ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 38865

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

501
Property rate /100K (county)
5,466
Population (ZIP)
26
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 38865 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 38865 sits within Alcorn 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.

Alcorn County reported a violent-crime rate of 26 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 501 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 9 reported violent incidents across a county population of 34,740, 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 38865 carries a Census-reported population of 5,466, ranking #2 of 3 ZIPs in Alcorn County, spread across 118.62 square miles (about 46 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Alcorn County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Alcorn County crime page linked below.

ZIP 38865 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Alcorn County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 38865 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
$44,871
Median age
36.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
83%
Occupied homes
1,887

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

Alcorn County UCR book ZIP 38865 inherits

ZIP 38865 itself is about 46 people per Census sq mi across 118.6 sq mi (5,466 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 38865's 5,466 residents are about 15.7% of the 2024 county reporting population (34,740), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Alcorn County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 183 offenses; mix index 4,470). ZIP 38865 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Alcorn County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -21% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Alcorn 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 38865

Similar county violent rate (~26/100K)

Similar Census population (~5,466)

County detail: Alcorn 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.