ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 96161

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

295
Property rate /100K (county)
19,146
Population (ZIP)
164
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 96161 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 96161 sits within Nevada 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: 164 violent incidents and 295 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 96161 carries a Census-reported population of 19,146, ranking #3 of 8 ZIPs in Nevada County, spread across 262.64 square miles (about 73 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Nevada County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Nevada County crime page linked below.

ZIP 96161 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Nevada County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 96161 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
$113,433
Median age
42.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
78%
Occupied homes
7,291

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 96161?

Within the participating-agency records for Nevada County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 53% below and property crime is 83% 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 96161. 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.

96161 is comparatively spread out at about 73 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

Nevada County UCR book ZIP 96161 inherits

ZIP 96161 itself is about 73 people per Census sq mi across 262.6 sq mi (19,146 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 96161's 19,146 residents are about 18.7% of the 2024 county reporting population (102,241), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Nevada County leans on larceny-theft at 37% of reported offenses (mix index 2,768). ZIP 96161 has no separate FBI offense book.

Nevada County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -9% vs 2023; property counts -6% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Nevada 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 96161

Similar county violent rate (~164/100K)

Similar Census population (~19,146)

County detail: Nevada 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.