ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 93638

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

627
Property rate /100K (county)
51,724
Population (ZIP)
216
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 93638 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 93638 sits within Madera County, CA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Madera County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 216 violent and 627 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 93638 is the largest ZIP in Madera County by population, 51,724 residents (#1 of 13 county ZIPs), across 90.26 square miles (573/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Madera County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Madera County crime page linked below.

ZIP 93638 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Madera County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 93638 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
$58,200
Median age
28.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
55%
Occupied homes
12,166

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 93638?

Within the participating-agency records for Madera County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 39% below and property crime is 63% 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 93638. 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, 93638 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 13). Its 51,724 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Madera County UCR book ZIP 93638 inherits

ZIP 93638 itself is about 573 people per Census sq mi across 90.3 sq mi (51,724 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 93638's 51,724 residents are about 33.1% of the 2024 county reporting population (156,255), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Madera County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 1,318 offenses; mix index 4,727). ZIP 93638 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Madera County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -5% vs 2023; property counts +8% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Madera 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 93638

Similar county violent rate (~216/100K)

Similar Census population (~51,724)

County detail: Madera 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.