ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 48827

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

656
Property rate /100K (county)
15,999
Population (ZIP)
91
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 48827 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 48827 sits within Eaton 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: 91 violent incidents and 656 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 48827 carries a Census-reported population of 15,999, ranking #4 of 11 ZIPs in Eaton County, spread across 113.89 square miles (about 140 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Eaton County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Eaton County crime page linked below.

ZIP 48827 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Eaton County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 48827 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
$74,866
Median age
41.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
85%
Occupied homes
6,076

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 48827?

Within the participating-agency records for Eaton County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 74% below and property crime is 62% 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 48827. 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.

48827 is comparatively spread out at about 140 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.

Eaton County UCR book ZIP 48827 inherits

ZIP 48827 itself is about 140 people per Census sq mi across 113.9 sq mi (15,999 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 48827 accounts for roughly 14.7% of the county reporting population (15,999 of 109,175).

Eaton County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 815 offenses; mix index 4,445). ZIP 48827 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Eaton County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -24% vs 2023; property counts -9% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Eaton 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 48827

Similar county violent rate (~91/100K)

Similar Census population (~15,999)

County detail: Eaton 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.