ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 78841
Val Verde County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 164
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 128
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 78841 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 78841 sits within Val Verde 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: 128 violent incidents and 164 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 78841 shows a Census-reported population of zero, consistent with a non-residential ZIP (a PO-box-only, business-only, or otherwise unpopulated postal code). For a full breakdown of Val Verde County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Val Verde County crime page linked below.
ZIP 78841 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Val Verde County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 78841?
Within the participating-agency records for Val Verde County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 64% below and property crime is 90% 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 78841. 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.
78841 is comparatively spread out at about 0 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.
Val Verde County UCR book ZIP 78841 inherits
ZIP 78841 itself is about 0 people per Census sq mi across 39 sq mi (0 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 78841 is about 0% of the county reporting population (0 of 47,586), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Val Verde County leans on larceny-theft at 37% of reported offenses (mix index 2,796). ZIP 78841 has no separate FBI offense book.
Val Verde County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +22% vs 2023; property counts -44% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Val Verde 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 78841
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.