ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 78358
Aransas County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 453
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 832
- Population (ZIP)
- 185
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 78358 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 78358 sits within Aransas County, TX, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Aransas County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 185 violent and 453 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
ZIP 78358 carries a Census-reported population of 832, ranking #2 of 3 ZIPs in Aransas County, spread across 0.83 square miles (about 1,002 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Aransas County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Aransas County crime page linked below.
ZIP 78358 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Aransas County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 78358 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
- $45,859
- Median age
- 62.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 93%
- Occupied homes
- 469
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 78358?
Within the participating-agency records for Aransas County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 47% below and property crime is 74% 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 78358. 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 78358 sits near the middle of Aransas County's ZIP population ordering (#2 of 3). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Aransas County UCR book ZIP 78358 inherits
ZIP 78358 itself is about 1,002 people per Census sq mi across 0.8 sq mi (832 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 78358 accounts for roughly 3.5% of the county reporting population (832 of 23,830).
Aransas County leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses (mix index 2,870). ZIP 78358 has no separate FBI offense book.
Aransas County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -44% vs 2023; property counts -21% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Aransas 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.
Read with ZIP 78358
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.