ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 78622
Caldwell County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 329
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 353
- Population (ZIP)
- 85
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 78622 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 78622 sits within Caldwell 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: 85 violent incidents and 329 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
With 353 residents, ZIP 78622 is among the smaller ZIPs in Caldwell County (#7 of 7 by population), spread across 4.06 square miles (87/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Caldwell County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Caldwell County crime page linked below.
ZIP 78622 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Caldwell County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 78622 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
- $64,583
- Median age
- 40.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 79%
- Occupied homes
- 136
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 78622?
Within the participating-agency records for Caldwell County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 76% below and property crime is 81% 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 78622. 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, 78622 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#7 of 7). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.
Caldwell County UCR book ZIP 78622 inherits
ZIP 78622 itself is about 87 people per Census sq mi across 4.1 sq mi (353 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 78622 is about 0.8% of the county reporting population (353 of 45,883), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Caldwell County keeps 8 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,473); larceny-theft still leads at 35%. ZIP 78622 inherits the county book.
Caldwell County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -30% vs 2023; property counts +9% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Caldwell 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.
Read with ZIP 78622
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.