ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 96796

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

2,056
Property rate /100K (county)
1,951
Population (ZIP)
293
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 96796 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 96796 sits within Kauai County, HI. 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.

Kauai County reported a violent-crime rate of 293 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 2,056 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 96796 carries a Census-reported population of 1,951, ranking #11 of 16 ZIPs in Kauai County, spread across 1.87 square miles (about 1,043 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Kauai County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Kauai County crime page linked below.

ZIP 96796 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Kauai County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 96796 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
$95,972
Median age
44.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
40%
Occupied homes
747

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 96796?

Participating agencies give Kauai County a split reported profile: violent crime is 17% below the U.S. benchmark while property crime is 20% above it. The categories should be read separately; the submissions neither establish complete county coverage nor provide a ZIP-specific rate for 96796. 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.

ZIP 96796 sits near the middle of Kauai County's ZIP population ordering (#11 of 16). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Kauai County UCR book ZIP 96796 inherits

ZIP 96796 itself is about 1,043 people per Census sq mi across 1.9 sq mi (1,951 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 96796 accounts for roughly 2.7% of the county reporting population (1,951 of 73,298).

Kauai County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 1,722 offenses; mix index 5,026). ZIP 96796 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Kauai 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 96796

Similar county violent rate (~293/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,951)

County detail: Kauai County · State atlas: Hawaii

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.