ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 78827
Dimmit County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 2,008
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 742
- Population (ZIP)
- 464
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 78827 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 78827 sits within Dimmit County, TX, a county whose reported crime runs above the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Dimmit County's reported crime sits somewhat above the national average: 464 violent and 2,008 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
ZIP 78827 carries a Census-reported population of 742, ranking #2 of 4 ZIPs in Dimmit County, spread across 64.13 square miles (about 12 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Dimmit County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Dimmit County crime page linked below.
ZIP 78827 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Dimmit County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 78827 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
- $28,438
- Median age
- 58.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 77%
- Occupied homes
- 327
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 78827?
Within the participating-agency records for Dimmit County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit above their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 32% above and property crime is 17% above. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or locate crime inside ZIP 78827. 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.
78827 is comparatively spread out at about 12 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.
Dimmit County UCR book ZIP 78827 inherits
ZIP 78827 itself is about 12 people per Census sq mi across 64.1 sq mi (742 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 78827 accounts for roughly 8.6% of the county reporting population (742 of 8,615).
Dimmit County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 3,120). ZIP 78827 has no separate FBI offense book.
Dimmit County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +67% vs 2023; property counts +42% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Dimmit 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 78827
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.