ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 48309
Oakland County, Michigan: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 30,626
- Population (ZIP)
- 2
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 5
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 48309 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 48309 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 48309 is the largest ZIP in Oakland County by population, 30,626 residents (#5 of 68 county ZIPs), across 15.56 square miles (1,968/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Oakland County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Oakland County crime page linked below.
ZIP 48309 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 48309 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
- $117,439
- Median age
- 42.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 81%
- Occupied homes
- 11,155
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 48309 settlement vs Oakland County
ZIP 48309 itself is about 1,968 people per Census sq mi across 15.6 sq mi (30,626 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 48309 accounts for roughly 2.4% of the county reporting population (30,626 of 1,274,395).
Oakland County leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses (mix index 3,734). ZIP 48309 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 48309
Similar county violent rate (~2/100K)
- ZIP 30071, GA · 2.1/100K · Gwinnett County
- ZIP 30161, GA · 2/100K · Floyd County
- ZIP 03894, NH · 2/100K · Carroll County
- ZIP 05001, VT · 1.7/100K · Windsor County
Similar Census population (~30,626)
- ZIP 85743, AZ · 30,626 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 55411, MN · 30,625 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 92673, CA · 30,633 pop · Δ7
- ZIP 42001, KY · 30,634 pop · Δ8
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.