ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 75253

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

24,411
Population (ZIP)
2
Violent rate /100K (county)
7
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 75253 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 75253 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 75253 carries a Census-reported population of 24,411, ranking #51 of 84 ZIPs in Dallas County, spread across 14.94 square miles (about 1,634 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 75253 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 75253 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
$51,642
Median age
25.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
68%
Occupied homes
6,699

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

ZIP 75253 settlement vs Dallas County

ZIP 75253 itself is about 1,634 people per Census sq mi across 14.9 sq mi (24,411 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 75253 is about 0.9% of the county reporting population (24,411 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 75253 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 75253

Similar county violent rate (~2/100K)

Similar Census population (~24,411)

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.