ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 48507

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

65
Property rate /100K (county)
29,357
Population (ZIP)
23
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 48507 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 48507 sits within Genesee 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: 23 violent incidents and 65 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 48507 is the largest ZIP in Genesee County by population, 29,357 residents (#3 of 23 county ZIPs), across 22.07 square miles (1,330/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Genesee County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Genesee County crime page linked below.

ZIP 48507 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Genesee County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 48507 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
$44,675
Median age
36.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
58%
Occupied homes
12,356

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 48507?

Within the participating-agency records for Genesee County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 93% below and property crime is 96% 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 48507. 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, 48507 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#3 of 23). Its 29,357 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Genesee County UCR book ZIP 48507 inherits

ZIP 48507 itself is about 1,330 people per Census sq mi across 22.1 sq mi (29,357 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 48507 accounts for roughly 7.2% of the county reporting population (29,357 of 406,211).

Genesee County leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses (mix index 3,179). ZIP 48507 has no separate FBI offense book.

Genesee County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +11% vs 2023; property counts -19% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Genesee 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 48507

Similar county violent rate (~23/100K)

Similar Census population (~29,357)

County detail: Genesee 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.