ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 94956
Marin County, California: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 154
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 1,189
- Population (ZIP)
- 30
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 94956 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 94956 sits within Marin 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: 30 violent incidents and 154 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 94956 carries a Census-reported population of 1,189, ranking #20 of 29 ZIPs in Marin County, spread across 34.71 square miles (about 34 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Marin County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Marin County crime page linked below.
ZIP 94956 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Marin County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 94956 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
- $76,750
- Median age
- 61.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 73%
- Occupied homes
- 666
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 94956?
Within the participating-agency records for Marin County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 91% 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 94956. 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.
94956 is comparatively spread out at about 34 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.
Marin County UCR book ZIP 94956 inherits
ZIP 94956 itself is about 34 people per Census sq mi across 34.7 sq mi (1,189 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 94956 is about 0.5% of the county reporting population (1,189 of 262,321), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Marin County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 482 offenses; mix index 5,389). ZIP 94956 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Marin County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +30% vs 2023; property counts +19% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Marin 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 94956
Similar county violent rate (~30/100K)
- ZIP 57301, SD · 30.1/100K · Davison County
- ZIP 40385, KY · 30.2/100K · Madison County
- ZIP 64048, MO · 30/100K · Clay County
- ZIP 98547, WA · 30/100K · Pacific County
Similar Census population (~1,189)
- ZIP 17214, PA · 1,189 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 27818, NC · 1,189 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 83852, ID · 1,189 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 16020, PA · 1,190 pop · Δ1
County detail: Marin 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.