ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 93581

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

779
Property rate /100K (county)
3,611
Population (ZIP)
348
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 93581 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 93581 sits within Kern County, CA. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Kern County reported a violent-crime rate of 348 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 779 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 93581 carries a Census-reported population of 3,611, ranking #26 of 47 ZIPs in Kern County, spread across 2.6 square miles (about 1,389 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Kern County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Kern County crime page linked below.

ZIP 93581 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Kern County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 93581 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 age
40.9 years
Occupied homes
0

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 93581?

Within the participating-agency records for Kern County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 1% below and property crime is 54% 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 93581. 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 93581 sits near the middle of Kern County's ZIP population ordering (#26 of 47). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Kern County UCR book ZIP 93581 inherits

ZIP 93581 itself is about 1,389 people per Census sq mi across 2.6 sq mi (3,611 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 93581 is about 0.4% of the county reporting population (3,611 of 909,235), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Kern County keeps 8 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,355); larceny-theft still leads at 31%. ZIP 93581 inherits the county book.

Kern County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -1% vs 2023; property counts -10% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Kern 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 93581

Similar county violent rate (~348/100K)

Similar Census population (~3,611)

County detail: Kern 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.