ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 48072
Oakland County, Michigan: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 15,150
- Population (ZIP)
- 2
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 5
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 48072 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 48072 sits within Oakland County, MI, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.
ZIP 48072 carries a Census-reported population of 15,150, ranking #46 of 68 ZIPs in Oakland County, spread across 2.4 square miles (about 6,313 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Oakland County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Oakland County crime page linked below.
ZIP 48072 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Oakland County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 48072 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
- $108,125
- Median age
- 37.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 85%
- Occupied homes
- 6,954
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 48072 settlement vs Oakland County
ZIP 48072 itself is about 6,313 people per Census sq mi across 2.4 sq mi (15,150 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 48072 is about 1.2% of the county reporting population (15,150 of 1,274,395), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Oakland County leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses (mix index 3,734). ZIP 48072 has no separate FBI offense book.
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 48072
Similar county violent rate (~2/100K)
- ZIP 30017, GA · 2.1/100K · Gwinnett County
- ZIP 30173, GA · 2/100K · Floyd County
- ZIP 03894, NH · 2/100K · Carroll County
- ZIP 05001, VT · 1.7/100K · Windsor County
Similar Census population (~15,150)
- ZIP 75951, TX · 15,148 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 21074, MD · 15,146 pop · Δ4
- ZIP 64024, MO · 15,158 pop · Δ8
- ZIP 98467, WA · 15,140 pop · Δ10
County detail: Oakland County · State atlas: Michigan
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.