ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 79382
Lubbock County, Texas: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 142
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 8,999
- Population (ZIP)
- 46
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 79382 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 79382 sits within Lubbock 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: 46 violent incidents and 142 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 79382 carries a Census-reported population of 8,999, ranking #11 of 20 ZIPs in Lubbock County, spread across 51.09 square miles (about 176 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Lubbock County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Lubbock County crime page linked below.
ZIP 79382 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Lubbock County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 79382 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
- $82,981
- Median age
- 33.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 77%
- Occupied homes
- 3,132
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 79382?
Within the participating-agency records for Lubbock County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 87% below and property crime is 92% 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 79382. 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.
79382 is comparatively spread out at about 176 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.
Lubbock County UCR book ZIP 79382 inherits
ZIP 79382 itself is about 176 people per Census sq mi across 51.1 sq mi (8,999 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 79382 accounts for roughly 2.9% of the county reporting population (8,999 of 310,639).
Lubbock County leans on larceny-theft at 37% of reported offenses (mix index 2,595). ZIP 79382 has no separate FBI offense book.
Lubbock County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -3% vs 2023; property counts -2% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Lubbock 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 79382
Similar county violent rate (~46/100K)
- ZIP 42450, KY · 46.1/100K · Webster County
- ZIP 94710, CA · 46.1/100K · Alameda County
- ZIP 68840, NE · 45.9/100K · Buffalo County
- ZIP 61080, IL · 45.9/100K · Winnebago County
Similar Census population (~8,999)
- ZIP 36079, AL · 8,998 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 16507, PA · 8,996 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 67152, KS · 9,006 pop · Δ7
- ZIP 33128, FL · 8,989 pop · Δ10
County detail: Lubbock 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.