ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 95553

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

416
Property rate /100K (county)
1,037
Population (ZIP)
148
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 95553 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 95553 sits within Humboldt 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: 148 violent incidents and 416 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 95553 carries a Census-reported population of 1,037, ranking #20 of 35 ZIPs in Humboldt County, spread across 70.16 square miles (about 15 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Humboldt County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Humboldt County crime page linked below.

ZIP 95553 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Humboldt County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 95553 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
$43,716
Median age
34.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
66%
Occupied homes
388

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 95553?

Within the participating-agency records for Humboldt County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 58% below and property crime is 76% 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 95553. 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.

95553 is comparatively spread out at about 15 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.

Humboldt County UCR book ZIP 95553 inherits

ZIP 95553 itself is about 15 people per Census sq mi across 70.2 sq mi (1,037 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 95553 is about 0.8% of the county reporting population (1,037 of 136,463), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Humboldt County leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses (mix index 3,298). ZIP 95553 has no separate FBI offense book.

Humboldt County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts flat vs 2023; property counts +3% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Humboldt 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 95553

Similar county violent rate (~148/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,037)

County detail: Humboldt 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.