ZIP Code 92261 — Palm Desert, California
📍 ZIP code 92261 is in Palm Desert, Riverside County, California.
ZIP code 92261 is a PO Box ZIP code assigned by the U.S. Postal Service in Palm Desert, Riverside County, California. It serves post office boxes at a Palm Desert post office rather than street addresses, which is why the Census Bureau reports no resident population, income or housing figures for it. Mail addressed to 92261 is handled in the Pacific Time Zone and the local area code is 760. The demographic profile of the surrounding community is on the standard delivery ZIP pages for Palm Desert listed below.
ZIP Code 92261 Map
Coordinates: 33.6604°N, 116.4082°W
Why there are no demographics for 92261
The Census Bureau publishes demographics for ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs), which are built from populated census blocks. A PO Box ZIP like 92261 has no delivery territory of its own, so there is no ZCTA and no population, income, housing or education estimate to report. This is normal: Riverside County and the rest of California have hundreds of PO Box and unique ZIPs of this kind.
For the community around Palm Desert, use the delivery ZIPs that do carry Census data:
How ZIPs and ZCTAs differ is explained on the methodology page.
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Cities & Places Served
ZIP code 92261 primarily serves Palm Desert in Riverside County, California.