ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 90601
Los Angeles County, California: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 180
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 30,667
- Population (ZIP)
- 59
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 90601 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 90601 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 90601 carries a Census-reported population of 30,667, ranking #156 of 295 ZIPs in Los Angeles County, spread across 10.6 square miles (about 2,893 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 90601 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 90601 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
- $96,209
- Median age
- 39.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 59%
- Occupied homes
- 10,812
- Median home value
- $708,400
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 30.8%
- Poverty rate
- 9.1%
- Unemployment rate
- 6.4%
ZIP 90601's median home value of $708,400 sits higher than 63% of the 1,569 CA ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 90601?
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 90601. 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 90601 sits near the middle of Los Angeles County's ZIP population ordering (#156 of 295). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Los Angeles County UCR book ZIP 90601 inherits
ZIP 90601 itself is about 2,893 people per Census sq mi across 10.6 sq mi (30,667 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 90601 is about 0.3% of the county reporting population (30,667 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 90601 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 90601
Similar county violent rate (~59/100K)
- ZIP 85120, AZ · 59/100K · Pinal County
- ZIP 71943, AR · 59/100K · Pike County
- ZIP 20187, VA · 58.9/100K · Fauquier County
- ZIP 36526, AL · 59.1/100K · Baldwin County
Similar Census population (~30,667)
- ZIP 14127, NY · 30,652 pop · Δ15
- ZIP 48446, MI · 30,693 pop · Δ26
- ZIP 85641, AZ · 30,638 pop · Δ29
- ZIP 42001, KY · 30,634 pop · Δ33
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.