ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 78572
Hidalgo County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 293
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 76,753
- Population (ZIP)
- 100
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 78572 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 78572 sits within Hidalgo 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: 100 violent incidents and 293 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 78572 is the largest ZIP in Hidalgo County by population, 76,753 residents (#3 of 29 county ZIPs), across 53.67 square miles (1,430/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Hidalgo County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Hidalgo County crime page linked below.
ZIP 78572 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Hidalgo County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 78572 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
- $50,562
- Median age
- 37.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 74%
- Occupied homes
- 25,476
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 78572?
Within the participating-agency records for Hidalgo County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 72% below and property crime is 83% 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 78572. 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.
Within the county, 78572 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#3 of 29). Its 76,753 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.
Hidalgo County UCR book ZIP 78572 inherits
ZIP 78572 itself is about 1,430 people per Census sq mi across 53.7 sq mi (76,753 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 78572 accounts for roughly 8.8% of the county reporting population (76,753 of 870,781).
Hidalgo County leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 2,934). ZIP 78572 has no separate FBI offense book.
Hidalgo County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +46% vs 2023; property counts -14% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Hidalgo 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 78572
Similar county violent rate (~100/100K)
- ZIP 48060, MI · 100.4/100K · St. Clair County
- ZIP 86314, AZ · 100.3/100K · Yavapai County
- ZIP 71667, AR · 100.5/100K · Lincoln County
- ZIP 21157, MD · 100.1/100K · Carroll County
Similar Census population (~76,753)
- ZIP 60623, IL · 76,611 pop · Δ142
- ZIP 95630, CA · 76,599 pop · Δ154
- ZIP 87121, NM · 76,980 pop · Δ227
- ZIP 91335, CA · 77,158 pop · Δ405
County detail: Hidalgo 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.