ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 78644
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)
- 20,088
- Population (ZIP)
- 85
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 78644 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 78644 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.
ZIP 78644 is the largest ZIP in Caldwell County by population, 20,088 residents (#1 of 7 county ZIPs), across 179.92 square miles (112/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 78644 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 78644 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
- $70,496
- Median age
- 38.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 70%
- Occupied homes
- 6,565
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 78644?
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 78644. 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, 78644 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 7). Its 20,088 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.
Caldwell County UCR book ZIP 78644 inherits
ZIP 78644 itself is about 112 people per Census sq mi across 179.9 sq mi (20,088 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 78644's 20,088 residents are about 43.8% of the 2024 county reporting population (45,883), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Caldwell County keeps 8 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,473); larceny-theft still leads at 35%. ZIP 78644 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.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 78644
Similar county violent rate (~85/100K)
- ZIP 37861, TN · 85/100K · Grainger County
- ZIP 35565, AL · 85/100K · Winston County
- ZIP 72616, AR · 84.9/100K · Carroll County
- ZIP 49684, MI · 85.2/100K · Leelanau County
Similar Census population (~20,088)
- ZIP 49001, MI · 20,087 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 89706, NV · 20,089 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 49301, MI · 20,092 pop · Δ4
- ZIP 70435, LA · 20,098 pop · Δ10
County detail: Caldwell 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.