ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 49646

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,009
Property rate /100K (county)
8,561
Population (ZIP)
329
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 49646 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 49646 sits within Kalkaska County, MI. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Kalkaska County reported a violent-crime rate of 329 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 1,009 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 49646 carries a Census-reported population of 8,561, ranking #1 of 4 ZIPs in Kalkaska County, spread across 219.28 square miles (about 39 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Kalkaska County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Kalkaska County crime page linked below.

ZIP 49646 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Kalkaska County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 49646 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
$51,760
Median age
42.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
81%
Occupied homes
3,661

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 49646?

Within the participating-agency records for Kalkaska County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 7% below and property crime is 41% 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 49646. 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.

49646 is comparatively spread out at about 39 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.

Kalkaska County UCR book ZIP 49646 inherits

ZIP 49646 itself is about 39 people per Census sq mi across 219.3 sq mi (8,561 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 49646's 8,561 residents are about 47.7% of the 2024 county reporting population (17,939), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Kalkaska County leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses (mix index 3,557). ZIP 49646 has no separate FBI offense book.

Kalkaska County 2024 vs 2022: violent counts -14% vs 2022; property counts +41% vs 2022. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Kalkaska 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 49646

Similar county violent rate (~329/100K)

Similar Census population (~8,561)

County detail: Kalkaska 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.