ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 48652
Gladwin County, Michigan: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 272
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 1,974
- Population (ZIP)
- 138
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 48652 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 48652 sits within Gladwin 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: 138 violent incidents and 272 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
With 1,974 residents, ZIP 48652 is among the smaller ZIPs in Gladwin County (#4 of 4 by population), spread across 59.68 square miles (33/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Gladwin County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Gladwin County crime page linked below.
ZIP 48652 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Gladwin County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 48652 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
- $73,000
- Median age
- 44.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 97%
- Occupied homes
- 764
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 48652?
Within the participating-agency records for Gladwin County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 61% below and property crime is 84% 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 48652. 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, 48652 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#4 of 4). 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.
Gladwin County UCR book ZIP 48652 inherits
ZIP 48652 itself is about 33 people per Census sq mi across 59.7 sq mi (1,974 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 48652 accounts for roughly 7.8% of the county reporting population (1,974 of 25,386).
Gladwin County leans on larceny-theft at 36% of reported offenses (mix index 2,708). ZIP 48652 has no separate FBI offense book.
Gladwin 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.
Gladwin 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 48652
Similar county violent rate (~138/100K)
- ZIP 28435, NC · 137.9/100K · Pender County
- ZIP 30013, GA · 137.9/100K · Rockdale County
- ZIP 23168, VA · 138/100K · James City County
- ZIP 31622, GA · 137.7/100K · Berrien County
Similar Census population (~1,974)
- ZIP 12052, NY · 1,974 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 22027, VA · 1,974 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 21780, MD · 1,975 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 54425, WI · 1,973 pop · Δ1
County detail: Gladwin 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.