ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 93433
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)
- 12,755
- Population (ZIP)
- 200
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 93433 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 93433 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 93433 carries a Census-reported population of 12,755, ranking #8 of 23 ZIPs in San Luis Obispo County, spread across 2.16 square miles (about 5,905 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 93433 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 93433 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
- $80,438
- Median age
- 40.3 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 57%
- Occupied homes
- 5,140
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 93433?
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 93433. 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.
93433 is a densely settled part of the county at about 5,905 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.
San Luis Obispo County UCR book ZIP 93433 inherits
ZIP 93433 itself is about 5,905 people per Census sq mi across 2.2 sq mi (12,755 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 93433 accounts for roughly 4.5% of the county reporting population (12,755 of 282,424).
San Luis Obispo County leans on aggravated assault at 44% of reported offenses (mix index 3,184). ZIP 93433 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 93433
Similar county violent rate (~202/100K)
- ZIP 33873, FL · 201.4/100K · Hardee County
- ZIP 29325, SC · 201.4/100K · Laurens County
- ZIP 28782, NC · 201.8/100K · Polk County
- ZIP 22546, VA · 200.7/100K · Caroline County
Similar Census population (~12,755)
- ZIP 13066, NY · 12,752 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 50677, IA · 12,746 pop · Δ9
- ZIP 61705, IL · 12,746 pop · Δ9
- ZIP 44839, OH · 12,766 pop · Δ11
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.