ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 48422

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

143
Property rate /100K (county)
6,005
Population (ZIP)
131
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 48422 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 48422 sits within Sanilac 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: 131 violent incidents and 143 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 48422 is the largest ZIP in Sanilac County by population, 6,005 residents (#1 of 18 county ZIPs), across 95.24 square miles (63/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Sanilac County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Sanilac County crime page linked below.

ZIP 48422 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Sanilac County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 48422 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
$59,347
Median age
45.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
80%
Occupied homes
2,501

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 48422?

Within the participating-agency records for Sanilac County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 63% below and property crime is 92% 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 48422. 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, 48422 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 18). Its 6,005 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Sanilac County UCR book ZIP 48422 inherits

ZIP 48422 itself is about 63 people per Census sq mi across 95.2 sq mi (6,005 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 48422 accounts for roughly 14.8% of the county reporting population (6,005 of 40,611).

Sanilac County leans on aggravated assault at 42% of reported offenses (mix index 3,223). ZIP 48422 has no separate FBI offense book.

Sanilac County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +2% vs 2023; property counts +5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Sanilac 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 48422

Similar county violent rate (~131/100K)

Similar Census population (~6,005)

County detail: Sanilac 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.