92833Fullerton, California

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 92833.

55out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 30% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity3128th of 6,210 published ZIP areas55
Growth2766th of 5,428 published ZIP areas50
Housing affordability5864th of 6,685 published ZIP areas50
ClimateTop 4% of 6,789 published ZIP areas100
Physical resilience6135th of 6,709 published ZIP areas11
AccessTop 16% of 6,791 published ZIP areas99
Economic stabilityTop 34% of 6,742 published ZIP areas68
The quick read

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 7.7 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 23% of it.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by earthquake, inland flooding and wildfire.

A major airport is 12 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
51,842
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$114,176
Top 12% nationally
Density
6,761/sq mi
7.7 sq mi of land
Median age
38.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Fullerton
California
Metro area
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
Nearest major airport
LGB
12 mi · Long Beach (Daugherty Fld)
Median home value
$884,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.4% is lower than 52% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 1.8% over the past year, to 65,475 employed residents.

43% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 82% of measured US ZIP areas.

Household income is higher than at least 88% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$8,118$114,176Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,374$48,642Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate10.8%Top 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute33.5 minTop 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher43.1%Top 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment65,475Top 44%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-1.1%Bottom 31%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.8%Bottom 22%June 2026
Labor force68,512Top 44%June 2026
Labor force participation67.4%Top 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$77,270Top 21%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$55,850Top 28%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.2%Bottom 41%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.4%Bottom 48%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024114k98k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $114,176 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides385,530$34,320
Fast Food and Counter Workers160,270$42,110
Retail Salespersons130,650$37,700
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand120,720$42,390
Office Clerks, General112,270$48,100
Cashiers109,940$36,980

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Fullerton, CA, the city containing this ZIP code.

There are 24.9 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
9
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
24.9
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Sunny Hills HighFullerton Joint Union High2,33725.4
Robert C. Fisler ElementaryFullerton Elementary89227.9
D. Russell Parks Junior HighFullerton Elementary85423.7
Sunset Lane ElementaryFullerton Elementary70030.4
Pacific Drive ElementaryFullerton Elementary60722.5
Nicolas Junior HighFullerton Elementary53918.6
Orangethorpe ElementaryFullerton Elementary48922.2
Valencia Park ElementaryFullerton Elementary39830.6
Fern Drive ElementaryFullerton Elementary37224.8

54.3% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against California’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $2,226 takes 23% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 7.7 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
23.4%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
7.7×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,226
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$884,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income7.74Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate55.8%Bottom 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±58017,247Top 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$101$2,226Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$18,853$884,100Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income23.4%Top 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.0%Bottom 13%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
50/ 100
Ranks 2766 of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 15% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 1.9 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
267
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
1.9
Bottom 39% nationally
Year over year
+82%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
15.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Fullerton, CA, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

12 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 84°F and January a low of 46°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 11.9 inches.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station FULLERTON MUNI AP, 1.2 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND3.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation11.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low46°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high84°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months121991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing20°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

11 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are earthquake, inland flooding and wildfire.

EarthquakeHigh
WildfireModerate
Inland floodingElevated
AvalancheModerate

Low or minimal exposure: landslide, heat wave, coastal flooding, tornado, hail, lightning, tsunami, strong wind, drought, winter weather.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Orange County records 1.8 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 4.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 12.9 per 100,000 residents in Orange County.

Homicide
1.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
4.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
12.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
8.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Orange County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 92833 rather than 92833 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

7 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 12 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Long Beach (Daugherty Fld)LGB12 mi10,000 ft
Ontario IntlONT24 mi12,197 ft
Los Angeles IntlLAX26 mi12,923 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

92833 vs Fullerton

How this ZIP area compares with Fullerton as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

92833
Fullerton
Median household income
$114,176
vs
$104,286
Per capita income
$48,642
vs
$50,180
Population density
6,761/sq mi
vs
6,288/sq mi
Median home value
$884,100
vs
$902,600
Median gross rent
$2,226
vs
$2,194
Homeownership rate
55.8%
vs
51.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher
43.1%
vs
43.5%
Poverty rate
10.8%
vs
12.3%
Median age
38.0
vs
36.9

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.