ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 48726

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

206
Property rate /100K (county)
5,733
Population (ZIP)
120
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 48726 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 48726 sits within Tuscola 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: 120 violent incidents and 206 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 48726 carries a Census-reported population of 5,733, ranking #4 of 13 ZIPs in Tuscola County, spread across 127.49 square miles (about 45 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Tuscola County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Tuscola County crime page linked below.

ZIP 48726 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Tuscola County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 48726 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
$62,232
Median age
43.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
82%
Occupied homes
2,214

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 48726?

Within the participating-agency records for Tuscola County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 66% below and property crime is 88% 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 48726. 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.

48726 is comparatively spread out at about 45 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

Tuscola County UCR book ZIP 48726 inherits

ZIP 48726 itself is about 45 people per Census sq mi across 127.5 sq mi (5,733 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 48726 accounts for roughly 10.8% of the county reporting population (5,733 of 53,323).

Tuscola County leans on larceny-theft at 35% of reported offenses (mix index 2,649). ZIP 48726 has no separate FBI offense book.

Tuscola County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +19% vs 2023; property counts -21% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Tuscola 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 48726

Similar county violent rate (~120/100K)

Similar Census population (~5,733)

County detail: Tuscola 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.