ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 48636

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

426
Property rate /100K (county)
852
Population (ZIP)
219
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 48636 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 48636 sits within Oscoda County, MI. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Oscoda County reported a violent-crime rate of 219 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 426 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 18 reported violent incidents across a county population of 8,219, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

ZIP 48636 carries a Census-reported population of 852, ranking #4 of 5 ZIPs in Oscoda County, spread across 77.35 square miles (about 11 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Oscoda County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Oscoda County crime page linked below.

ZIP 48636 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Oscoda County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 48636 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
$58,750
Median age
61.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
98%
Occupied homes
430

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

Oscoda County UCR book ZIP 48636 inherits

ZIP 48636 itself is about 11 people per Census sq mi across 77.4 sq mi (852 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 48636 accounts for roughly 10.4% of the county reporting population (852 of 8,219).

Oscoda County leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 3,072). ZIP 48636 has no separate FBI offense book.

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

Oscoda 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.

Read with ZIP 48636

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.

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.