ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 92281

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

149
Property rate /100K (county)
2,238
Population (ZIP)
60
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 92281 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 92281 sits within Imperial 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: 60 violent incidents and 149 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 92281 carries a Census-reported population of 2,238, ranking #8 of 15 ZIPs in Imperial County, spread across 13.2 square miles (about 170 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Imperial County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Imperial County crime page linked below.

ZIP 92281 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Imperial County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 92281 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
$35,020
Median age
24.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
50%
Occupied homes
549

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 92281?

Within the participating-agency records for Imperial County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 83% below and property crime is 91% 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 92281. 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.

92281 is comparatively spread out at about 170 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.

Imperial County UCR book ZIP 92281 inherits

ZIP 92281 itself is about 170 people per Census sq mi across 13.2 sq mi (2,238 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 92281 is about 1.2% of the county reporting population (2,238 of 179,702), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Imperial County leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses (mix index 2,797). ZIP 92281 has no separate FBI offense book.

Imperial County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -38% vs 2023; property counts -35% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Imperial 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 92281

Similar county violent rate (~60/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,238)

County detail: Imperial 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.