ZIP Code 96079 — Shasta Lake, California
📍 ZIP code 96079 is in Shasta Lake, Shasta County, California.
ZIP code 96079 is a PO Box ZIP code assigned by the U.S. Postal Service in Shasta Lake, Shasta County, California. It serves post office boxes at a Shasta Lake 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 96079 is handled in the Pacific Time Zone and the local area code is 530. The demographic profile of the surrounding community is on the standard delivery ZIP pages for Shasta Lake listed below.
ZIP Code 96079 Map
Coordinates: 40.6866°N, 122.3348°W
Why there are no demographics for 96079
The Census Bureau publishes demographics for ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs), which are built from populated census blocks. A PO Box ZIP like 96079 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: Shasta County and the rest of California have hundreds of PO Box and unique ZIPs of this kind.
For the community around Shasta Lake, 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 96079 primarily serves Shasta Lake in Shasta County, California.