ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 78147
Wilson County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 772
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 1,709
- Population (ZIP)
- 90
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 78147 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 78147 sits within Wilson 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: 90 violent incidents and 772 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 78147 carries a Census-reported population of 1,709, ranking #5 of 7 ZIPs in Wilson County, spread across 3.48 square miles (about 491 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Wilson County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Wilson County crime page linked below.
ZIP 78147 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Wilson County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 78147 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
- $69,917
- Median age
- 30.0 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 65%
- Occupied homes
- 569
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 78147?
Within the participating-agency records for Wilson County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 74% 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 78147. 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.
ZIP 78147 sits near the middle of Wilson County's ZIP population ordering (#5 of 7). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Wilson County UCR book ZIP 78147 inherits
ZIP 78147 itself is about 491 people per Census sq mi across 3.5 sq mi (1,709 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 78147 accounts for roughly 3.4% of the county reporting population (1,709 of 49,753).
Wilson County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 429 offenses; mix index 4,051). ZIP 78147 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Wilson County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -27% vs 2023; property counts +11% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Wilson 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 78147
Similar county violent rate (~90/100K)
- ZIP 70583, LA · 90.6/100K · Lafayette County
- ZIP 48861, MI · 90.7/100K · Eaton County
- ZIP 54156, WI · 90.8/100K · Marinette County
- ZIP 43844, OH · 90.1/100K · Coshocton County
Similar Census population (~1,709)
- ZIP 52218, IA · 1,709 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 93206, CA · 1,709 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 15360, PA · 1,710 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 36860, AL · 1,710 pop · Δ1
County detail: Wilson 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.