ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 95482

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

202
Violent rate /100K (county)
34,183
Population (ZIP)
79
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 95482 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 95482 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 95482 is the largest ZIP in Mendocino County by population, 34,183 residents (#1 of 26 county ZIPs), across 294.16 square miles (116/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Mendocino County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Mendocino County crime page linked below.

ZIP 95482 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 95482 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
$65,657
Median age
39.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
57%
Occupied homes
11,653

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 95482?

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 95482. 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, 95482 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 26). Its 34,183 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Mendocino County UCR book ZIP 95482 inherits

ZIP 95482 itself is about 116 people per Census sq mi across 294.2 sq mi (34,183 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 95482's 34,183 residents are about 37.3% of the 2024 county reporting population (91,601), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Mendocino County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (64% of 257 offenses; mix index 4,794). ZIP 95482 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.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 95482

Similar county violent rate (~202/100K)

Similar Census population (~34,183)

County detail: Mendocino 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.