ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 95602
Placer County, California: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 210
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 18,610
- Population (ZIP)
- 88
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 95602 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 95602 sits within Placer 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: 88 violent incidents and 210 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 95602 carries a Census-reported population of 18,610, ranking #9 of 30 ZIPs in Placer County, spread across 49.66 square miles (about 375 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Placer County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Placer County crime page linked below.
ZIP 95602 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Placer County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 95602 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
- $96,578
- Median age
- 54.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 82%
- Occupied homes
- 7,325
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 95602?
Within the participating-agency records for Placer County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 75% below and property crime is 88% 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 95602. 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 95602 sits near the middle of Placer County's ZIP population ordering (#9 of 30). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Placer County UCR book ZIP 95602 inherits
ZIP 95602 itself is about 375 people per Census sq mi across 49.7 sq mi (18,610 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 95602 accounts for roughly 4.6% of the county reporting population (18,610 of 404,739).
Placer County leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses (mix index 3,751). ZIP 95602 has no separate FBI offense book.
Placer County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -34% vs 2023; property counts -17% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Placer 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 95602
Similar county violent rate (~88/100K)
- ZIP 37411, TN · 88.2/100K · Hamilton County
- ZIP 49058, MI · 88.1/100K · Barry County
- ZIP 22642, VA · 88.4/100K · Warren County
- ZIP 27379, NC · 88/100K · Caswell County
Similar Census population (~18,610)
- ZIP 73114, OK · 18,611 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 48879, MI · 18,607 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 98230, WA · 18,605 pop · Δ5
- ZIP 63138, MO · 18,602 pop · Δ8
County detail: Placer 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.