ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 96021

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

428
Property rate /100K (county)
15,746
Population (ZIP)
184
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 96021 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 96021 sits within Tehama County, CA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Tehama County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 184 violent and 428 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 96021 is the largest ZIP in Tehama County by population, 15,746 residents (#2 of 14 county ZIPs), across 249.6 square miles (63/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Tehama County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Tehama County crime page linked below.

ZIP 96021 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Tehama County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 96021 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
$56,724
Median age
37.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
62%
Occupied homes
5,384

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 96021?

Within the participating-agency records for Tehama County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 48% below and property crime is 75% 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 96021. 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, 96021 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#2 of 14). Its 15,746 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Tehama County UCR book ZIP 96021 inherits

ZIP 96021 itself is about 63 people per Census sq mi across 249.6 sq mi (15,746 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 96021's 15,746 residents are about 23.9% of the 2024 county reporting population (65,829), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Tehama County leans on burglary at 33% of reported offenses (mix index 2,504). ZIP 96021 has no separate FBI offense book.

Tehama County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +11% vs 2023; property counts -18% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Tehama 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 96021

Similar county violent rate (~184/100K)

Similar Census population (~15,746)

County detail: Tehama 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.