ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 49346

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

625
Property rate /100K (county)
4,984
Population (ZIP)
252
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 49346 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 49346 sits within Mecosta County, MI, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Mecosta County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 252 violent and 625 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 49346 carries a Census-reported population of 4,984, ranking #2 of 8 ZIPs in Mecosta County, spread across 64.54 square miles (about 77 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Mecosta County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Mecosta County crime page linked below.

ZIP 49346 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Mecosta County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 49346 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
$67,948
Median age
55.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
91%
Occupied homes
2,149

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 49346?

Within the participating-agency records for Mecosta County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 28% below and property crime is 63% 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 49346. 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.

49346 is comparatively spread out at about 77 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.

Mecosta County UCR book ZIP 49346 inherits

ZIP 49346 itself is about 77 people per Census sq mi across 64.5 sq mi (4,984 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 49346 accounts for roughly 12.5% of the county reporting population (4,984 of 39,714).

Mecosta County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (57% of 348 offenses; mix index 4,062). ZIP 49346 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Mecosta County 2024 vs 2021: violent counts +669% vs 2021; property counts +477% vs 2021. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Mecosta 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 49346

Similar county violent rate (~252/100K)

Similar Census population (~4,984)

County detail: Mecosta 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.