ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 95608

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

545
Property rate /100K (county)
63,715
Population (ZIP)
178
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 95608 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 95608 sits within Sacramento County, CA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Sacramento County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 178 violent and 545 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 95608 is the largest ZIP in Sacramento County by population, 63,715 residents (#5 of 55 county ZIPs), across 13.23 square miles (4,816/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Sacramento County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Sacramento County crime page linked below.

ZIP 95608 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Sacramento County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 95608 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
$79,371
Median age
42.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
53%
Occupied homes
26,050

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 95608?

Within the participating-agency records for Sacramento County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 49% below and property crime is 68% 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 95608. 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, 95608 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#5 of 55). Its 63,715 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Sacramento County UCR book ZIP 95608 inherits

ZIP 95608 itself is about 4,816 people per Census sq mi across 13.2 sq mi (63,715 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 95608 accounts for roughly 4% of the county reporting population (63,715 of 1,585,055).

Sacramento County leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses (mix index 3,407). ZIP 95608 has no separate FBI offense book.

Sacramento County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +3% vs 2023; property counts +13% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Sacramento 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 95608

Similar county violent rate (~178/100K)

Similar Census population (~63,715)

County detail: Sacramento 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.