ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 90240
Los Angeles County, California: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 180
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 26,026
- Population (ZIP)
- 59
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 90240 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 90240 sits within Los Angeles County, CA, 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: 59 violent incidents and 180 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 90240 carries a Census-reported population of 26,026, ranking #188 of 295 ZIPs in Los Angeles County, spread across 3.01 square miles (about 8,647 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Los Angeles County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Los Angeles County crime page linked below.
ZIP 90240 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Los Angeles County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 90240 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
- $99,874
- Median age
- 38.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 65%
- Occupied homes
- 7,685
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 90240?
Within the participating-agency records for Los Angeles County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 83% below and property crime is 89% 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 90240. 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.
90240 is a densely settled part of the county at about 8,647 people per square mile. Density is not a crime predictor on its own; it only shows why a county-wide average can conceal a very different local setting inside this ZIP.
Los Angeles County UCR book ZIP 90240 inherits
ZIP 90240 itself is about 8,647 people per Census sq mi across 3 sq mi (26,026 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 90240 is about 0.3% of the county reporting population (26,026 of 10,014,009), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Los Angeles County leans on larceny-theft at 39% of reported offenses (mix index 2,578). ZIP 90240 has no separate FBI offense book.
Los Angeles County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -6% vs 2023; property counts -1% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Los Angeles 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 90240
Similar county violent rate (~59/100K)
- ZIP 85119, AZ · 59/100K · Pinal County
- ZIP 71943, AR · 59/100K · Pike County
- ZIP 20187, VA · 58.9/100K · Fauquier County
- ZIP 36507, AL · 59.1/100K · Baldwin County
Similar Census population (~26,026)
- ZIP 27607, NC · 26,026 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 27028, NC · 26,025 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 28012, NC · 26,027 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 89801, NV · 26,023 pop · Δ3
County detail: Los Angeles County · State atlas: California
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.