ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 48159

Monroe County, Michigan: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

608
Property rate /100K (county)
2,590
Population (ZIP)
145
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 48159 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 48159 sits within Monroe County, MI, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 145 violent incidents and 608 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

With 2,590 residents, ZIP 48159 is among the smaller ZIPs in Monroe County (#15 of 17 by population), spread across 32.1 square miles (81/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Monroe County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Monroe County crime page linked below.

ZIP 48159 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Monroe County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 48159 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
$71,146
Median age
45.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
84%
Occupied homes
1,067

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 48159?

Within the participating-agency records for Monroe County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 59% below and property crime is 64% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 48159. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.

Within the county, 48159 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#15 of 17). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.

Monroe County UCR book ZIP 48159 inherits

ZIP 48159 itself is about 81 people per Census sq mi across 32.1 sq mi (2,590 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 48159 is about 1.7% of the county reporting population (2,590 of 154,809), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Monroe County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 1,165 offenses; mix index 4,274). ZIP 48159 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Monroe County offense mix (2024)

Mix index is HHI × 10,000 on county offense-type shares. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero; still county-agency data, not a ZIP-native FBI table.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 48159

Similar county violent rate (~145/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,590)

County detail: Monroe 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.