ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 78216
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)
- 42,379
- Population (ZIP)
- 53
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 78216 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 78216 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 78216 carries a Census-reported population of 42,379, ranking #19 of 70 ZIPs in Bexar County, spread across 14.07 square miles (about 3,012 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 78216 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 78216 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
- $54,394
- Median age
- 35.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 34%
- Occupied homes
- 19,492
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 78216?
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 78216. 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.
78216 is a densely settled part of the county at about 3,012 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 78216 inherits
ZIP 78216 itself is about 3,012 people per Census sq mi across 14.1 sq mi (42,379 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 78216 accounts for roughly 2.1% of the county reporting population (42,379 of 2,009,324).
Bexar County leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses (mix index 3,466). ZIP 78216 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 78216
Similar county violent rate (~53/100K)
- ZIP 48867, MI · 52.9/100K · Shiawassee County
- ZIP 82001, 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 (~42,379)
- ZIP 63136, MO · 42,385 pop · Δ6
- ZIP 14215, NY · 42,368 pop · Δ11
- ZIP 30701, GA · 42,396 pop · Δ17
- ZIP 95926, CA · 42,362 pop · Δ17
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.