ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 78408

Nueces County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

39
Property rate /100K (county)
10,104
Population (ZIP)
18
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 78408 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 78408 sits within Nueces 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: 18 violent incidents and 39 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 78408 carries a Census-reported population of 10,104, ranking #11 of 24 ZIPs in Nueces County, spread across 5.86 square miles (about 1,724 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Nueces County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Nueces County crime page linked below.

ZIP 78408 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Nueces County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 78408 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
$40,910
Median age
37.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
52%
Occupied homes
3,916

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 78408?

Within the participating-agency records for Nueces County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 95% below and property crime is 98% 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 78408. 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 78408 sits near the middle of Nueces County's ZIP population ordering (#11 of 24). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Nueces County UCR book ZIP 78408 inherits

ZIP 78408 itself is about 1,724 people per Census sq mi across 5.9 sq mi (10,104 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 78408 accounts for roughly 2.9% of the county reporting population (10,104 of 353,178).

Nueces County leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses (mix index 2,826). ZIP 78408 has no separate FBI offense book.

Nueces County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +37% vs 2023; property counts +9% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Nueces 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 78408

Similar county violent rate (~18/100K)

Similar Census population (~10,104)

County detail: Nueces 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.