ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 93432
San Luis Obispo County, California: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 202
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 1,434
- Population (ZIP)
- 200
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 93432 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 93432 sits within San Luis Obispo County, CA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
San Luis Obispo County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 202 violent and 200 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
ZIP 93432 carries a Census-reported population of 1,434, ranking #18 of 23 ZIPs in San Luis Obispo County, spread across 84.54 square miles (about 17 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of San Luis Obispo County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the San Luis Obispo County crime page linked below.
ZIP 93432 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from San Luis Obispo County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 93432 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
- $106,838
- Median age
- 44.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 82%
- Occupied homes
- 525
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 93432?
Within the participating-agency records for San Luis Obispo County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 43% below and property crime is 88% 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 93432. 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.
93432 is comparatively spread out at about 17 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.
San Luis Obispo County UCR book ZIP 93432 inherits
ZIP 93432 itself is about 17 people per Census sq mi across 84.5 sq mi (1,434 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 93432 is about 0.5% of the county reporting population (1,434 of 282,424), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
San Luis Obispo County leans on aggravated assault at 44% of reported offenses (mix index 3,184). ZIP 93432 has no separate FBI offense book.
San Luis Obispo County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -19% vs 2023; property counts -11% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
San Luis Obispo 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 93432
Similar county violent rate (~202/100K)
- ZIP 33890, FL · 201.4/100K · Hardee County
- ZIP 29351, SC · 201.4/100K · Laurens County
- ZIP 28773, NC · 201.8/100K · Polk County
- ZIP 22514, VA · 200.7/100K · Caroline County
Similar Census population (~1,434)
- ZIP 05353, VT · 1,434 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 36767, AL · 1,434 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 48897, MI · 1,434 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 52351, IA · 1,434 pop · Δ0
County detail: San Luis Obispo 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.