ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 96063

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

428
Property rate /100K (county)
77
Population (ZIP)
184
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 96063 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 96063 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.

With 77 residents, ZIP 96063 is among the smaller ZIPs in Tehama County (#13 of 14 by population), spread across 12.96 square miles (6/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 96063 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 96063 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 age
48.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
78%
Occupied homes
59
Median home value
$196,300
Bachelor's degree or higher
23.4%
Poverty rate
10.4%
Unemployment rate
0.0%

ZIP 96063's median home value of $196,300 is lower than 96% of the 1,569 CA ZIPs with a reported value, among the most affordable in the state by this measure.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 96063?

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 96063. 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, 96063 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#13 of 14). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.

Tehama County UCR book ZIP 96063 inherits

ZIP 96063 itself is about 6 people per Census sq mi across 13 sq mi (77 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 96063 is about 0.1% of the county reporting population (77 of 65,829), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Tehama County leans on burglary at 33% of reported offenses (mix index 2,504). ZIP 96063 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.

Read with ZIP 96063

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.

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.