ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 78382

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)
19,425
Population (ZIP)
185
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 78382 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 78382 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 78382 carries a Census-reported population of 19,425, ranking #1 of 3 ZIPs in Aransas County, spread across 79.9 square miles (about 243 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 78382 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 78382 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
$59,131
Median age
51.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
80%
Occupied homes
9,365

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 78382?

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 78382. 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.

78382 is comparatively spread out at about 243 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.

Aransas County UCR book ZIP 78382 inherits

ZIP 78382 itself is about 243 people per Census sq mi across 79.9 sq mi (19,425 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 78382's 19,425 residents are about 81.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (23,830), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Aransas County leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses (mix index 2,870). ZIP 78382 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.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 78382

Similar county violent rate (~185/100K)

Similar Census population (~19,425)

County detail: Aransas 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.