ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 49464

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

579
Property rate /100K (county)
29,027
Population (ZIP)
177
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 49464 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 49464 sits within Ottawa County, MI, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Ottawa County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 177 violent and 579 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 49464 carries a Census-reported population of 29,027, ranking #4 of 16 ZIPs in Ottawa County, spread across 73.15 square miles (about 397 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Ottawa County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Ottawa County crime page linked below.

ZIP 49464 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Ottawa County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 49464 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
$94,466
Median age
38.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
88%
Occupied homes
10,414

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 49464?

Within the participating-agency records for Ottawa County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 50% below and property crime is 66% 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 49464. 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 49464 sits near the middle of Ottawa County's ZIP population ordering (#4 of 16). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Ottawa County UCR book ZIP 49464 inherits

ZIP 49464 itself is about 397 people per Census sq mi across 73.2 sq mi (29,027 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 49464 accounts for roughly 9.8% of the county reporting population (29,027 of 296,200).

Ottawa County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 2,238 offenses; mix index 4,176). ZIP 49464 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Ottawa County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -8% vs 2023; property counts -11% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Ottawa 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 49464

Similar county violent rate (~177/100K)

Similar Census population (~29,027)

County detail: Ottawa 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.