ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 75042
Dallas County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 37,925
- Population (ZIP)
- 2
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 7
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 75042 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 75042 sits within Dallas County, TX, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.
ZIP 75042 carries a Census-reported population of 37,925, ranking #27 of 84 ZIPs in Dallas County, spread across 7.63 square miles (about 4,971 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Dallas County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Dallas County crime page linked below.
ZIP 75042 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Dallas County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 75042 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
- $60,118
- Median age
- 32.9 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 59%
- Occupied homes
- 11,471
- Median home value
- $200,600
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 17.2%
- Poverty rate
- 14.7%
- Unemployment rate
- 5.0%
ZIP 75042's median home value of $200,600 sits higher than 59% of the 1,647 TX ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
ZIP 75042 settlement vs Dallas County
ZIP 75042 itself is about 4,971 people per Census sq mi across 7.6 sq mi (37,925 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 75042 is about 1.5% of the county reporting population (37,925 of 2,613,539), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Dallas County leans on motor vehicle theft at 38% of reported offenses (mix index 2,824). ZIP 75042 has no separate FBI offense book.
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 75042
Similar county violent rate (~2/100K)
- ZIP 29577, SC · 1.4/100K · Horry County
- ZIP 30328, GA · 1.3/100K · Fulton County
- ZIP 03431, NH · 1.3/100K · Cheshire County
- ZIP 03301, NH · 1.3/100K · Merrimack County
Similar Census population (~37,925)
- ZIP 44134, OH · 37,914 pop · Δ11
- ZIP 53703, WI · 37,944 pop · Δ19
- ZIP 92253, CA · 37,898 pop · Δ27
- ZIP 07109, NJ · 37,893 pop · Δ32
County detail: Dallas County · State atlas: Texas
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.