ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 95459
Mendocino County, California: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 202
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 853
- Population (ZIP)
- 79
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 95459 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 95459 sits within Mendocino County, CA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Mendocino County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 202 violent and 79 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
ZIP 95459 carries a Census-reported population of 853, ranking #14 of 26 ZIPs in Mendocino County, spread across 59.34 square miles (about 14 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Mendocino County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Mendocino County crime page linked below.
ZIP 95459 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Mendocino County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 95459 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
- $59,653
- Median age
- 44.3 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 62%
- Occupied homes
- 345
- Median home value
- $558,500
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 16.3%
- Poverty rate
- 4.7%
- Unemployment rate
- 9.5%
ZIP 95459's median home value of $558,500 sits higher than 46% of the 1,569 CA ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 95459?
Within the participating-agency records for Mendocino County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 43% below and property crime is 95% 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 95459. 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.
95459 is comparatively spread out at about 14 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.
Mendocino County UCR book ZIP 95459 inherits
ZIP 95459 itself is about 14 people per Census sq mi across 59.3 sq mi (853 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 95459 is about 0.9% of the county reporting population (853 of 91,601), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Mendocino County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (64% of 257 offenses; mix index 4,794). ZIP 95459 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Mendocino County 2024 vs 2020: violent counts -1% vs 2020; property counts -89% vs 2020. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Mendocino 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.
Read with ZIP 95459
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.