ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 48126
Wayne County, Michigan: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 53,044
- Population (ZIP)
- 4
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 48126 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 48126 sits within Wayne 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 48126 is the largest ZIP in Wayne County by population, 53,044 residents (#3 of 69 county ZIPs), across 8.37 square miles (6,337/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Wayne County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Wayne County crime page linked below.
ZIP 48126 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Wayne County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 48126 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
- $46,565
- Median age
- 28.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 58%
- Occupied homes
- 15,082
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 48126 settlement vs Wayne County
ZIP 48126 itself is about 6,337 people per Census sq mi across 8.4 sq mi (53,044 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 48126 accounts for roughly 3% of the county reporting population (53,044 of 1,793,561).
Wayne County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (95% of 63 offenses; mix index 9,093). ZIP 48126 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
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 48126
Similar county violent rate (~4/100K)
- ZIP 55369, MN · 3.6/100K · Hennepin County
- ZIP 80701, CO · 3.4/100K · Morgan County
- ZIP 55124, MN · 3.4/100K · Dakota County
- ZIP 05819, VT · 3.3/100K · Caledonia County
Similar Census population (~53,044)
- ZIP 39503, MS · 53,049 pop · Δ5
- ZIP 92026, CA · 53,053 pop · Δ9
- ZIP 30721, GA · 53,067 pop · Δ23
- ZIP 37087, TN · 53,068 pop · Δ24
County detail: Wayne 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.