ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 78843
Val Verde County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 164
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 459
- Population (ZIP)
- 128
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 78843 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 78843 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 78843 carries a Census-reported population of 459, ranking #2 of 6 ZIPs in Val Verde County, spread across 1.76 square miles (about 261 people per square mile). 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 78843 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.
ZIP 78843 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 age
- 23.0 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 0%
- Occupied homes
- 41
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 78843?
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 78843. 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.
ZIP 78843 sits near the middle of Val Verde County's ZIP population ordering (#2 of 6). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Val Verde County UCR book ZIP 78843 inherits
ZIP 78843 itself is about 261 people per Census sq mi across 1.8 sq mi (459 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 78843 is about 1% of the county reporting population (459 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 78843 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.
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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.