- Name
- Wilbur D. Heaney
- Phone
- 310-555-0172
- Address
- 9383 N Johnson St, Los Angeles, CA 90044, United States
California Address Generator
Generate a random California address: a Los Angeles city line, a valid CA ZIP code and a full profile. Free, instant and built for testing, forms and privacy.
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Generated addresses
- Name
- Arthur H. Abshire
- Phone
- 323-555-0115
- Address
- 967 Court St, Los Angeles, CA 90023, United States
- Name
- Jasmine L. Kirlin
- Phone
- 818-555-0116
- Address
- 7799 Cambridge Ct, Los Angeles, CA 90049, United States
- Name
- Christian G. Tromp
- Phone
- 818-555-0106
- Address
- 2865 N 10th St, Los Angeles, CA 90043, United States
- Name
- Levi R. Marvin
- Phone
- 310-555-0149
- Address
- 8646 Beech St, Los Angeles, CA 90031, United States
Generated sample data. Addresses are not verified for delivery.
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This is randomly generated fictional data for software testing, QA, and privacy. It does not describe a real person. Any resemblance to a real individual is coincidental.
This California address tool keeps Los Angeles selected while changing the house number and street details. ZIP codes come from the configured city pool. Copy the complete address into a form test, or download the displayed addresses as CSV or JSON.
The statewide reference tables below describe wider California postal geography; they are not a promise of statewide generation coverage. Street details are synthetic and can match a real address by chance. No complete address is verified for delivery.
For additional profile fields, expand the separate full-profile tool. Its generated results and profile downloads are independent of the address-only batch.
Sixty ZIP prefixes statewide, and 133 different place names inside Los Angeles County alone.
California has the widest postal geography in the country: 2,593 postal codes spread across 60 three-digit prefixes, against a national average nearer 18. Any validation built on prefix ranges needs care here simply because there are so many of them, and any fixture set that samples "a few California ZIPs" is sampling a fraction of a percent of the state.
The more expensive detail is what the city field means. Los Angeles County holds 508 postal codes filed under 133 distinct USPS place names, and only 94 of them are filed as "Los Angeles". Van Nuys, Pasadena, Long Beach, Burbank and Glendale are separate place names — some of them separate cities, some of them neighbourhoods inside the City of Los Angeles that the Postal Service files under their own name anyway.
So in California the city line is a postal place name, not a municipality, and the two disagree constantly. A resident of Van Nuys who writes "Los Angeles" has not made a mistake, and neither has one who writes "Van Nuys"; a validator that insists on one of them will reject a large share of correct addresses in the largest county in the United States. Accept what the customer types, store it, and standardise only at the point where you hand the address to a carrier.
The county picture is ordinary by comparison — 58 counties, a number that has not changed since 1907 — which makes California a useful counterweight in a fixture set: enormous postal variety, unremarkable administrative structure.
One California county earns its own fixture. Truckee, postal code 96162, sits in Nevada County, California — and there is a Nevada City in it, which is the county seat. Any code that resolves a place or county name to a state will read "Nevada" as the state next door and put the address 200 miles away, in a different tax jurisdiction and a different carrier zone, without raising anything. It is the same class of bug as Virginia's city-and-county pairs, arriving from a different direction: there, two jurisdictions share a name; here, a county shares its name with a state.
Quick answers about California sample addresses
Which city does the California generator use?
It uses Los Angeles, with a ZIP from that city's configured postal pool. Generate another changes the street details while keeping the city fixed.
Can I use these addresses for delivery?
No delivery verification is performed. These addresses are generated for tests and mockups; use an actual verified recipient address for shipping.
ZIP code prefixes in California
| Prefix | Principal place | Postal codes | Share of state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 900xx | Los Angeles | 95 | 4% |
| 956xx | Auburn | 94 | 4% |
| 945xx | Concord | 93 | 4% |
| 921xx | San Diego | 80 | 3% |
| 960xx | Redding | 80 | 3% |
| 953xx | Modesto | 79 | 3% |
| 954xx | Santa Rosa | 77 | 3% |
| 959xx | Chico | 77 | 3% |
| 923xx | Fontana | 74 | 3% |
| 932xx | Visalia | 72 | 3% |
| 913xx | Northridge | 70 | 3% |
| 936xx | Clovis | 65 | 3% |
California has 2,593 postal codes across 60 three-digit prefixes and 58 counties or county equivalents; the 48 smaller prefixes are not shown. A prefix is the sectional centre facility that sorts the mail, which is why it maps to a state. Counts include every published code, PO-Box and military codes included — the generator itself draws only from codes that take ordinary street mail. Source: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).
Real California ZIP codes and area codes
| Reference | Value |
|---|---|
| ZIP code range | 90001–96162 |
| Los Angeles example ZIP | 90012 |
| San Francisco example ZIP | 94102 |
| San Diego example ZIP | 92101 |
| Sacramento example ZIP | 95814 |
| Common area codes | 213, 310, 415, 619, 916 |
| Los Angeles area codes | 213, 323, 310, 424, 818, 747 |
| Generated ZIP on this page | A real CA code, typically 900xx (Los Angeles) |
California ZIP ranges in general USPS use and common area codes (see USPS and NANPA references below). Generated addresses on this page use a real ZIP code issued in California.
California address and ZIP examples
| California city | ZIP prefix | Best page |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 900xx | Los Angeles address generator |
| San Diego | 921xx | San Diego address generator |
| San Jose | 951xx | San Jose address generator |
| San Francisco | 941xx | San Francisco address generator |
| Sacramento | 958xx | Sacramento address generator |
California uses many ZIP ranges. The state generator uses a Los Angeles 900xx prefix; city pages use their own local prefixes.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Van Nuys part of Los Angeles?
It is a neighbourhood of the City of Los Angeles, and the Postal Service files its ZIP codes under the place name Van Nuys rather than Los Angeles. Both forms describe the same place, which is why validating a California city field against a list of municipalities produces false rejections: the postal place name and the municipality are different things.
How many ZIP prefixes does California have?
Sixty — more than any other state, covering 2,593 postal codes. New York and Texas are next with 52 each. A prefix-range table for California is therefore long, and a test set drawn from a handful of Los Angeles codes exercises almost none of it.
How many counties does California have?
Fifty-eight, and the number has not moved since 1907. That is unremarkable next to Texas's 254 — which is the point of keeping both in a fixture set, since county-keyed logic that is trivial to enumerate in one state is not in the other.
What ZIP code does the California address generator use?
The state-level California generator uses a Los Angeles-style 900xx ZIP prefix. Other California city pages use local prefixes, such as 921xx for San Diego, 951xx for San Jose, 941xx for San Francisco and 958xx for Sacramento.
Can I generate a Los Angeles address from this page?
Yes. This page keeps Los Angeles, CA selected for each generated address. Copy the individual fields, or generate a batch and export the displayed addresses as CSV or JSON.
What ZIP codes does California use?
California ZIP codes fall in the range 90001–96162. Real examples include 90012 (Los Angeles), 94102 (San Francisco), 92101 (San Diego), 95814 (Sacramento). This page generates addresses in the 900xx Los Angeles range so the city, state and ZIP always agree.
What area codes does California use?
Common California area codes include 213, 310, 415, 619, 916. Generated phone numbers follow the real US format but use the reserved 555-01XX fictional exchange, so they can never reach a real CA line.
Is this California identity generator free?
Yes — it is completely free and unlimited. Generate as many fictional profiles as you need, with no sign-up and no usage caps.
Is the generated California identity a real person?
No. Every field is randomly generated and combined so the result describes no real individual. Names, addresses, phone numbers and emails are fictional and any resemblance to a real person is coincidental.
What can I use this fake data for?
It is intended for legitimate uses: testing and QA of software, seeding development databases, designing forms and demos, and protecting your real details when a site demands more information than necessary. It must never be used for fraud, impersonation or identity theft.
Does the profile include ID or payment card numbers?
No. The profile shows a name, address, phone, email, username, password, birthday and physical details. It does not display national ID numbers or payment card numbers, and nothing it generates can identify, charge or impersonate anyone.
Can I generate a California identity for a specific gender or region?
Yes. Use the gender pages to pin male or female, the country pages for a specific nationality, and the US state pages for a state-consistent address with a matching ZIP code.
Sources
- USPS Publication 28, Chapter 2 — Postal Addressing Standards — United States Postal Service
- GeoNames US postal-code dataset (CC BY 4.0) — the source of every count on this page — GeoNames
- US Census Bureau — Geographic Areas Reference Manual, Chapter 4: Counties and Statistically Equivalent Entities — US Census Bureau
- ISO 3166 — Codes for country names and subdivisions — ISO
- ITU-T E.164 — International telephone numbering plan — ITU
- Universal Postal Union — Addressing and postal code standards — Universal Postal Union
- USPS — ZIP Code lookup and format — United States Postal Service
- US Census Bureau — Geographic data and gazetteer files — US Census Bureau
- US Census Bureau — TIGER/Line Shapefiles 2025 (street names) — US Census Bureau
- NANPA — NPA and rate-centre reports — North American Numbering Plan Administration
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