ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 49050

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

449
Property rate /100K (county)
1,428
Population (ZIP)
88
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 49050 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 49050 sits within Barry 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: 88 violent incidents and 449 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

With 1,428 residents, ZIP 49050 is among the smaller ZIPs in Barry County (#8 of 8 by population), spread across 25.44 square miles (56/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Barry County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Barry County crime page linked below.

ZIP 49050 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Barry County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 49050 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
$72,679
Median age
48.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
92%
Occupied homes
545

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 49050?

Within the participating-agency records for Barry County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 75% below and property crime is 74% 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 49050. 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, 49050 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#8 of 8). 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.

Barry County UCR book ZIP 49050 inherits

ZIP 49050 itself is about 56 people per Census sq mi across 25.4 sq mi (1,428 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 49050 accounts for roughly 2.3% of the county reporting population (1,428 of 62,423).

Barry County leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses (mix index 3,860). ZIP 49050 has no separate FBI offense book.

Barry County 2024 vs 2021: violent counts -28% vs 2021; property counts -11% vs 2021. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Barry 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 49050

Similar county violent rate (~88/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,428)

County detail: Barry 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.