What is the crime rate for ZIP code 48476?

ZIP 48476 (Shiawassee County, MI) doesn't have its own FBI crime figure, ZIP codes aren't law-enforcement jurisdictions. The containing county reported 53 violent incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, below the national average.

What county is ZIP code 48476 in?

ZIP code 48476 is located in Shiawassee County, MI.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 48476

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

236
Property rate /100K (county): 604
Population (ZIP): 53
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 48476 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 48476 sits within Shiawassee 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: 53 violent incidents and 236 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

With 604 residents, ZIP 48476 is among the smaller ZIPs in Shiawassee County (#12 of 12 by population), spread across 0.68 square miles (888/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Shiawassee County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Shiawassee County crime page linked below.

ZIP 48476 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Shiawassee County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 48476 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: $75,568
Median age: 46.6 years
Owner-occupied homes: 97%
Occupied homes: 231

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 48476?

Within the participating-agency records for Shiawassee County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 85% below and property crime is 86% 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 48476. 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, 48476 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#12 of 12). 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.

Shiawassee County UCR book ZIP 48476 inherits

ZIP 48476 itself is about 888 people per Census sq mi across 0.7 sq mi (604 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 48476 is about 0.9% of the county reporting population (604 of 68,094), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Shiawassee County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 197 offenses; mix index 4,866). ZIP 48476 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Shiawassee County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +20% vs 2023; property counts -17% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Shiawassee County offense mix (2024)

Larceny-Theft 133 offenses (68%) Aggravated Assault 27 offenses (14%) Motor Vehicle Theft 16 offenses (8%) Burglary 12 offenses (6%) Rape 8 offenses (4%)

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.

Read with ZIP 48476

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.