ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 39116
Smith County, Mississippi: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 162
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 2,660
- Population (ZIP)
- 35
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 39116 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 39116 sits within Smith 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.
Smith County reported a violent-crime rate of 35 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 162 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 5 reported violent incidents across a county population of 14,209, 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 39116 carries a Census-reported population of 2,660, ranking #2 of 4 ZIPs in Smith County, spread across 85.51 square miles (about 31 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Smith County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Smith County crime page linked below.
ZIP 39116 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Smith County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 39116 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
- $59,888
- Median age
- 43.9 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 90%
- Occupied homes
- 929
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
Smith County UCR book ZIP 39116 inherits
ZIP 39116 itself is about 31 people per Census sq mi across 85.5 sq mi (2,660 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 39116's 2,660 residents are about 18.7% of the 2024 county reporting population (14,209), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Smith County leans on motor vehicle theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 2,934). ZIP 39116 has no separate FBI offense book.
Smith County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -32% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Smith 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 39116
Similar county violent rate (~35/100K)
- ZIP 28698, NC · 35.1/100K · Watauga County
- ZIP 29821, SC · 35.1/100K · Edgefield County
- ZIP 67876, KS · 35/100K · Ford County
- ZIP 64443, MO · 35.4/100K · Buchanan County
Similar Census population (~2,660)
- ZIP 63627, MO · 2,660 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 03258, NH · 2,659 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 36750, AL · 2,659 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 61046, IL · 2,659 pop · Δ1
County detail: Smith 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.