ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 76234

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

768
Property rate /100K (county)
20,110
Population (ZIP)
112
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 76234 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 76234 sits within Wise County, TX, 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: 112 violent incidents and 768 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 76234 is the largest ZIP in Wise County by population, 20,110 residents (#1 of 9 county ZIPs), across 314.02 square miles (64/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Wise County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Wise County crime page linked below.

ZIP 76234 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Wise County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 76234 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
$85,052
Median age
38.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
78%
Occupied homes
6,805

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 76234?

Within the participating-agency records for Wise County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 68% below and property crime is 55% 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 76234. 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.

Within the county, 76234 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 9). Its 20,110 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Wise County UCR book ZIP 76234 inherits

ZIP 76234 itself is about 64 people per Census sq mi across 314 sq mi (20,110 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 76234's 20,110 residents are about 29.3% of the 2024 county reporting population (68,632), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Wise County leans on burglary at 41% of reported offenses (mix index 3,399). ZIP 76234 has no separate FBI offense book.

Wise County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -30% vs 2023; property counts +12% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Wise 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 76234

Similar county violent rate (~112/100K)

Similar Census population (~20,110)

County detail: Wise 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.