ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 78211
Bexar County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 310
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 31,433
- Population (ZIP)
- 53
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 78211 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 78211 sits within Bexar 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: 53 violent incidents and 310 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 78211 carries a Census-reported population of 31,433, ranking #32 of 70 ZIPs in Bexar County, spread across 10.22 square miles (about 3,076 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Bexar County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Bexar County crime page linked below.
ZIP 78211 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Bexar County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 78211 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
- $50,183
- Median age
- 36.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 65%
- Occupied homes
- 9,763
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 78211?
Within the participating-agency records for Bexar County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 85% below and property crime is 82% 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 78211. 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.
78211 is a densely settled part of the county at about 3,076 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.
Bexar County UCR book ZIP 78211 inherits
ZIP 78211 itself is about 3,076 people per Census sq mi across 10.2 sq mi (31,433 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 78211 is about 1.6% of the county reporting population (31,433 of 2,009,324), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Bexar County leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses (mix index 3,466). ZIP 78211 has no separate FBI offense book.
Bexar County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +9% vs 2023; property counts -9% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Bexar 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 78211
Similar county violent rate (~53/100K)
- ZIP 48867, MI · 52.9/100K · Shiawassee County
- ZIP 82009, WY · 52.7/100K · Laramie County
- ZIP 47834, IN · 52.9/100K · Clay County
- ZIP 68048, NE · 52.6/100K · Cass County
Similar Census population (~31,433)
- ZIP 08003, NJ · 31,434 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 54302, WI · 31,428 pop · Δ5
- ZIP 40065, KY · 31,439 pop · Δ6
- ZIP 70815, LA · 31,423 pop · Δ10
County detail: Bexar 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.