ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 96125
Sierra County, California: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 556
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 234
- Population (ZIP)
- 464
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 96125 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 96125 sits within Sierra County, CA. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.
Sierra County reported a violent-crime rate of 464 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 556 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 15 reported violent incidents across a county population of 3,236, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.
ZIP 96125 carries a Census-reported population of 234, ranking #4 of 8 ZIPs in Sierra County, spread across 92.77 square miles (about 3 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Sierra County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Sierra County crime page linked below.
ZIP 96125 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Sierra County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 96125 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
- $74,917
- Median age
- 70.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 100%
- Occupied homes
- 143
- Median home value
- $381,300
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 38.0%
- Poverty rate
- 0.0%
- Unemployment rate
- 0.0%
ZIP 96125's median home value of $381,300 sits higher than 28% of the 1,569 CA ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
Sierra County UCR book ZIP 96125 inherits
ZIP 96125 itself is about 3 people per Census sq mi across 92.8 sq mi (234 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 96125 accounts for roughly 7.2% of the county reporting population (234 of 3,236).
Sierra County leans on aggravated assault at 42% of reported offenses (mix index 3,489). ZIP 96125 has no separate FBI offense book.
Sierra County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +50% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Sierra 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 96125
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.