ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 48933

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

139
Property rate /100K (county)
3,056
Population (ZIP)
58
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 48933 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 48933 sits within Ingham 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: 58 violent incidents and 139 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 48933 carries a Census-reported population of 3,056, ranking #15 of 18 ZIPs in Ingham County, spread across 1.04 square miles (about 2,938 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Ingham County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Ingham County crime page linked below.

ZIP 48933 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Ingham County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 48933 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
$35,023
Median age
29.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
8%
Occupied homes
1,753

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 48933?

Within the participating-agency records for Ingham County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 84% below and property crime is 92% 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 48933. 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.

ZIP 48933 sits near the middle of Ingham County's ZIP population ordering (#15 of 18). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Ingham County UCR book ZIP 48933 inherits

ZIP 48933 itself is about 2,938 people per Census sq mi across 1 sq mi (3,056 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 48933 is about 1.1% of the county reporting population (3,056 of 284,900), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Ingham County leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses (mix index 3,430). ZIP 48933 has no separate FBI offense book.

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

Ingham 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 48933

Similar county violent rate (~58/100K)

Similar Census population (~3,056)

County detail: Ingham 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.