ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 63837
Dunklin County, Missouri: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 329
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 1,572
- Population (ZIP)
- 131
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 63837 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 63837 sits within Dunklin County, MO, 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: 131 violent incidents and 329 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 63837 carries a Census-reported population of 1,572, ranking #5 of 12 ZIPs in Dunklin County, spread across 31.36 square miles (about 50 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Dunklin County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Dunklin County crime page linked below.
ZIP 63837 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Dunklin County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 63837 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
- $44,722
- Median age
- 31.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 63%
- Occupied homes
- 596
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 63837?
Within the participating-agency records for Dunklin County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 63% below and property crime is 81% 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 63837. 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.
63837 is comparatively spread out at about 50 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.
Dunklin County UCR book ZIP 63837 inherits
ZIP 63837 itself is about 50 people per Census sq mi across 31.4 sq mi (1,572 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 63837 accounts for roughly 5.6% of the county reporting population (1,572 of 28,283).
Dunklin County leans on larceny-theft at 39% of reported offenses (mix index 2,526). ZIP 63837 has no separate FBI offense book.
Dunklin County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +28% vs 2023; property counts +11% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Dunklin 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 63837
Similar county violent rate (~131/100K)
- ZIP 38560, TN · 130.6/100K · Smith County
- ZIP 74366, OK · 130.6/100K · Mayes County
- ZIP 72644, AR · 131.1/100K · Boone County
- ZIP 74878, OK · 131.1/100K · Pottawatomie County
Similar Census population (~1,572)
- ZIP 17935, PA · 1,572 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 27980, NC · 1,572 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 36907, AL · 1,572 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 49411, MI · 1,572 pop · Δ0
County detail: Dunklin County · State atlas: Missouri
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.