ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 42223
Montgomery County, Tennessee: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 176
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 19,617
- Population (ZIP)
- 83
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 42223 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 42223 sits within Montgomery County, TN, 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: 83 violent incidents and 176 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 42223 carries a Census-reported population of 19,617, ranking #4 of 8 ZIPs in Montgomery County, spread across 21.72 square miles (about 903 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Montgomery County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Montgomery County crime page linked below.
ZIP 42223 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Montgomery County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 42223 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
- $56,840
- Median age
- 22.0 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 0%
- Occupied homes
- 4,305
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 42223?
Within the participating-agency records for Montgomery County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 76% below and property crime is 90% 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 42223. 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.
ZIP 42223 sits near the middle of Montgomery County's ZIP population ordering (#4 of 8). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Montgomery County UCR book ZIP 42223 inherits
ZIP 42223 itself is about 903 people per Census sq mi across 21.7 sq mi (19,617 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 42223 accounts for roughly 8.9% of the county reporting population (19,617 of 220,069).
Montgomery County leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 3,202). ZIP 42223 has no separate FBI offense book.
Montgomery County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +81% vs 2023; property counts -3% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Montgomery 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 42223
Similar county violent rate (~83/100K)
- ZIP 89433, NV · 83.2/100K · Washoe County
- ZIP 41008, KY · 83.3/100K · Carroll County
- ZIP 32428, FL · 82.9/100K · Washington County
- ZIP 30525, GA · 82.9/100K · Rabun County
Similar Census population (~19,617)
- ZIP 47129, IN · 19,617 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 99016, WA · 19,620 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 08872, NJ · 19,613 pop · Δ4
- ZIP 55130, MN · 19,613 pop · Δ4
County detail: Montgomery County · State atlas: Tennessee
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.