ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 61938

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

160
Property rate /100K (county)
20,965
Population (ZIP)
30
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 61938 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 61938 sits within Coles County, IL. 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.

Coles County reported a violent-crime rate of 30 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 160 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 14 reported violent incidents across a county population of 46,863, 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 61938 carries a Census-reported population of 20,965, ranking #1 of 6 ZIPs in Coles County, spread across 126.52 square miles (about 166 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Coles County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Coles County crime page linked below.

ZIP 61938 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Coles County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 61938 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
$52,279
Median age
42.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
60%
Occupied homes
9,342

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

Coles County UCR book ZIP 61938 inherits

ZIP 61938 itself is about 166 people per Census sq mi across 126.5 sq mi (20,965 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 61938's 20,965 residents are about 44.7% of the 2024 county reporting population (46,863), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Coles County leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses (mix index 3,390). ZIP 61938 has no separate FBI offense book.

Coles County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +67% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Coles 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 61938

Similar county violent rate (~30/100K)

Similar Census population (~20,965)

County detail: Coles County · State atlas: Illinois

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.