ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 49461
Muskegon County, Michigan: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
- 9,362
- Population (ZIP)
- 24
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 217
- People / sq mi
Is ZIP code 49461 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 49461 sits within Muskegon County, MI. The FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program does not publish crime statistics by ZIP code, crime is reported by individual law-enforcement agencies, which don't align with postal-code boundaries. The figures below are Muskegon County's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.
Muskegon County reported a violent-crime rate of 24 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 133 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions. Violent crime is 93% below the US national average — substantially safer than most US cities.
ZIP 49461 itself has a Census-reported population of 9,362, spread across 43.21 square miles (about 217 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Muskegon County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Muskegon County crime page linked below.
Why not a ZIP-native rate? ZIP codes are a postal delivery construct, not a law-enforcement jurisdiction. The FBI UCR Program collects data from police departments and sheriff's offices, which report by agency and county, never by postal code. Any site claiming a precise "ZIP code crime rate" is deriving it the same way this page does, from the containing county or a nearby agency, whether or not they disclose it.
This page's county attribution comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file, which maps every ZIP Code Tabulation Area to the county or counties its land area overlaps. A handful of ZIP codes straddle more than one county line; where that happens, this page attributes the ZIP to whichever county holds the larger share of its land area, the standard plurality-allocation approach used across public-data reference sites. Some U.S. territories and a small number of ZIP codes in states with limited county government (Connecticut, Rhode Island, and a few others) aren't yet covered by this crosswalk and don't have a page here.
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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).
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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.