ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 49639
Osceola County, Michigan: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 472
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 2,442
- Population (ZIP)
- 153
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 49639 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 49639 sits within Osceola 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: 153 violent incidents and 472 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 49639 carries a Census-reported population of 2,442, ranking #5 of 7 ZIPs in Osceola County, spread across 61.67 square miles (about 40 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Osceola County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Osceola County crime page linked below.
ZIP 49639 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Osceola County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 49639 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
- $58,555
- Median age
- 44.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 89%
- Occupied homes
- 985
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 49639?
Within the participating-agency records for Osceola County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 57% below and property crime is 72% 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 49639. 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.
49639 is comparatively spread out at about 40 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.
Osceola County UCR book ZIP 49639 inherits
ZIP 49639 itself is about 40 people per Census sq mi across 61.7 sq mi (2,442 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 49639 accounts for roughly 10.7% of the county reporting population (2,442 of 22,891).
Osceola County leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses (mix index 2,989). ZIP 49639 has no separate FBI offense book.
Osceola County 2024 vs 2020: violent counts +289% vs 2020; property counts +440% vs 2020. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Osceola 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 49639
Similar county violent rate (~153/100K)
- ZIP 75422, TX · 153.1/100K · Hunt County
- ZIP 37356, TN · 152.6/100K · Marion County
- ZIP 83611, ID · 153.2/100K · Valley County
- ZIP 35188, AL · 152.5/100K · Bibb County
Similar Census population (~2,442)
- ZIP 52336, IA · 2,442 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 24556, VA · 2,441 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 27852, NC · 2,443 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 38366, TN · 2,444 pop · Δ2
County detail: Osceola 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.