ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 78416

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)
13,865
Population (ZIP)
18
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 78416 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 78416 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 78416 carries a Census-reported population of 13,865, ranking #10 of 24 ZIPs in Nueces County, spread across 3.32 square miles (about 4,176 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 78416 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 78416 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
$44,320
Median age
40.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
61%
Occupied homes
5,005

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 78416?

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 78416. 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.

78416 is a densely settled part of the county at about 4,176 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.

Nueces County UCR book ZIP 78416 inherits

ZIP 78416 itself is about 4,176 people per Census sq mi across 3.3 sq mi (13,865 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 78416 accounts for roughly 3.9% of the county reporting population (13,865 of 353,178).

Nueces County leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses (mix index 2,826). ZIP 78416 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 78416

Similar county violent rate (~18/100K)

Similar Census population (~13,865)

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.