ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 78026

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

868
Property rate /100K (county)
6,426
Population (ZIP)
167
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 78026 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 78026 sits within Atascosa 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: 167 violent incidents and 868 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 78026 carries a Census-reported population of 6,426, ranking #4 of 10 ZIPs in Atascosa County, spread across 355.66 square miles (about 18 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Atascosa County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Atascosa County crime page linked below.

ZIP 78026 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Atascosa County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 78026 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
$74,047
Median age
41.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
65%
Occupied homes
2,613

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 78026?

Within the participating-agency records for Atascosa County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 53% below and property crime is 49% 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 78026. 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.

78026 is comparatively spread out at about 18 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.

Atascosa County UCR book ZIP 78026 inherits

ZIP 78026 itself is about 18 people per Census sq mi across 355.7 sq mi (6,426 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 78026 accounts for roughly 13.1% of the county reporting population (6,426 of 48,981).

Atascosa County leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses (mix index 3,391). ZIP 78026 has no separate FBI offense book.

Atascosa County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +11% vs 2023; property counts -10% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Atascosa 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 78026

Similar county violent rate (~167/100K)

Similar Census population (~6,426)

County detail: Atascosa 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.