ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 78943

Colorado County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

710
Property rate /100K (county)
304
Population (ZIP)
63
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 78943 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 78943 sits within Colorado County, TX. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Colorado County reported a violent-crime rate of 63 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 710 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 13 reported violent incidents across a county population of 20,557, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

ZIP 78943 carries a Census-reported population of 304, ranking #9 of 12 ZIPs in Colorado County, spread across 0.7 square miles (about 434 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Colorado County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Colorado County crime page linked below.

ZIP 78943 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Colorado County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 78943 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
50.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
54%
Occupied homes
178

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

Colorado County UCR book ZIP 78943 inherits

ZIP 78943 itself is about 434 people per Census sq mi across 0.7 sq mi (304 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 78943 is about 1.5% of the county reporting population (304 of 20,557), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Colorado County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 159 offenses; mix index 4,201). ZIP 78943 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Colorado County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -9% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Colorado 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 78943

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.