ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 95348

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

492
Property rate /100K (county)
35,853
Population (ZIP)
130
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 95348 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 95348 sits within Merced 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: 130 violent incidents and 492 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 95348 carries a Census-reported population of 35,853, ranking #4 of 19 ZIPs in Merced County, spread across 58.99 square miles (about 608 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Merced County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Merced County crime page linked below.

ZIP 95348 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Merced County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 95348 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
$62,551
Median age
30.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
45%
Occupied homes
10,998

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 95348?

Within the participating-agency records for Merced County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 63% below and property crime is 71% 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 95348. 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 95348 sits near the middle of Merced County's ZIP population ordering (#4 of 19). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Merced County UCR book ZIP 95348 inherits

ZIP 95348 itself is about 608 people per Census sq mi across 59 sq mi (35,853 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 95348 accounts for roughly 12.7% of the county reporting population (35,853 of 281,202).

Merced County leans on larceny-theft at 42% of reported offenses (mix index 2,687). ZIP 95348 has no separate FBI offense book.

Merced County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -6% vs 2023; property counts -7% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Merced 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 95348

Similar county violent rate (~130/100K)

Similar Census population (~35,853)

County detail: Merced 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.