ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 48239

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

37,372
Population (ZIP)
4
Violent rate /100K (county)
0
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 48239 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 48239 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 48239 carries a Census-reported population of 37,372, ranking #18 of 69 ZIPs in Wayne County, spread across 9.47 square miles (about 3,946 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Wayne County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Wayne County crime page linked below.

ZIP 48239 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 48239 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
$67,570
Median age
37.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
77%
Occupied homes
14,060

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

ZIP 48239 settlement vs Wayne County

ZIP 48239 itself is about 3,946 people per Census sq mi across 9.5 sq mi (37,372 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 48239 accounts for roughly 2.1% of the county reporting population (37,372 of 1,793,561).

Wayne County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (95% of 63 offenses; mix index 9,093). ZIP 48239 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 48239

Similar county violent rate (~4/100K)

Similar Census population (~37,372)

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.