ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 49638
Wexford County, Michigan: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 380
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 954
- Population (ZIP)
- 104
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 49638 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 49638 sits within Wexford 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: 104 violent incidents and 380 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 49638 carries a Census-reported population of 954, ranking #4 of 5 ZIPs in Wexford County, spread across 72.83 square miles (about 13 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Wexford County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Wexford County crime page linked below.
ZIP 49638 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Wexford County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 49638 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
- $45,481
- Median age
- 45.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 88%
- Occupied homes
- 377
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 49638?
Within the participating-agency records for Wexford County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 70% below and property crime is 78% 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 49638. 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.
49638 is comparatively spread out at about 13 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.
Wexford County UCR book ZIP 49638 inherits
ZIP 49638 itself is about 13 people per Census sq mi across 72.8 sq mi (954 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 49638 accounts for roughly 2.8% of the county reporting population (954 of 33,673).
Wexford County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 163 offenses; mix index 4,767). ZIP 49638 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Wexford County 2024 vs 2021: violent counts +1067% vs 2021; property counts +151% vs 2021. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Wexford 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.
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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).
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.