ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 92027
San Diego County, California: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 74
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 55,750
- Population (ZIP)
- 38
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 92027 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 92027 sits within San Diego 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: 38 violent incidents and 74 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 92027 is the largest ZIP in San Diego County by population, 55,750 residents (#16 of 115 county ZIPs), across 59.67 square miles (934/sq mi). For a full breakdown of San Diego County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the San Diego County crime page linked below.
ZIP 92027 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from San Diego County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 92027 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
- $80,260
- Median age
- 35.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 60%
- Occupied homes
- 17,331
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 92027?
Within the participating-agency records for San Diego County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 89% below and property crime is 96% 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 92027. 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.
Within the county, 92027 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#16 of 115). Its 55,750 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.
San Diego County UCR book ZIP 92027 inherits
ZIP 92027 itself is about 934 people per Census sq mi across 59.7 sq mi (55,750 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 92027 is about 1.7% of the county reporting population (55,750 of 3,298,634), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
San Diego County leans on larceny-theft at 33% of reported offenses (mix index 2,541). ZIP 92027 has no separate FBI offense book.
San Diego County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -25% vs 2023; property counts -36% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
San Diego 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 92027
Similar county violent rate (~38/100K)
- ZIP 44460, OH · 38.3/100K · Columbiana County
- ZIP 67114, KS · 38.2/100K · Harvey County
- ZIP 49779, MI · 38.5/100K · Presque Isle County
- ZIP 83672, ID · 38.1/100K · Washington County
Similar Census population (~55,750)
- ZIP 76549, TX · 55,730 pop · Δ20
- ZIP 33578, FL · 55,724 pop · Δ26
- ZIP 20744, MD · 55,820 pop · Δ70
- ZIP 55124, MN · 55,594 pop · Δ156
County detail: San Diego 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.