ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 77498

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

631
Property rate /100K (county)
54,402
Population (ZIP)
100
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 77498 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 77498 sits within Fort Bend 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: 100 violent incidents and 631 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 77498 carries a Census-reported population of 54,402, ranking #7 of 21 ZIPs in Fort Bend County, spread across 16.11 square miles (about 3,377 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Fort Bend County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Fort Bend County crime page linked below.

ZIP 77498 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Fort Bend County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 77498 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
$93,703
Median age
35.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
70%
Occupied homes
16,830

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 77498?

Within the participating-agency records for Fort Bend County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 72% below and property crime is 63% 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 77498. 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.

77498 is a densely settled part of the county at about 3,377 people per square mile. Density is not a crime predictor on its own; it only shows why a county-wide average can conceal a very different local setting inside this ZIP.

Fort Bend County UCR book ZIP 77498 inherits

ZIP 77498 itself is about 3,377 people per Census sq mi across 16.1 sq mi (54,402 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 77498 accounts for roughly 6.6% of the county reporting population (54,402 of 822,779).

Fort Bend County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 6,015 offenses; mix index 4,869). ZIP 77498 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Fort Bend County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -3% vs 2023; property counts +5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Fort Bend 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 77498

Similar county violent rate (~100/100K)

Similar Census population (~54,402)

County detail: Fort Bend 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.