ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 78582

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

344
Property rate /100K (county)
44,988
Population (ZIP)
206
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 78582 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 78582 sits within Starr County, TX, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Starr County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 206 violent and 344 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 78582 is the largest ZIP in Starr County by population, 44,988 residents (#1 of 9 county ZIPs), across 565.25 square miles (80/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Starr County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Starr County crime page linked below.

ZIP 78582 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Starr County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 78582 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
$40,221
Median age
28.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
74%
Occupied homes
12,422

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 78582?

Within the participating-agency records for Starr County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 41% below and property crime is 80% 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 78582. 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, 78582 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 9). Its 44,988 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Starr County UCR book ZIP 78582 inherits

ZIP 78582 itself is about 80 people per Census sq mi across 565.3 sq mi (44,988 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 78582's 44,988 residents are about 68.2% of the 2024 county reporting population (65,920), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Starr County keeps 8 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,467); larceny-theft still leads at 34%. ZIP 78582 inherits the county book.

Starr County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +84% vs 2023; property counts +33% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Starr 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 78582

Similar county violent rate (~206/100K)

Similar Census population (~44,988)

County detail: Starr 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.