ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 49677

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)
7,351
Population (ZIP)
153
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 49677 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 49677 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 49677 is the largest ZIP in Osceola County by population, 7,351 residents (#1 of 7 county ZIPs), across 126.66 square miles (58/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Osceola County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Osceola County crime page linked below.

ZIP 49677 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 49677 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
$58,419
Median age
42.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
80%
Occupied homes
2,739

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 49677?

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 49677. 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.

Within the county, 49677 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 7). Its 7,351 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Osceola County UCR book ZIP 49677 inherits

ZIP 49677 itself is about 58 people per Census sq mi across 126.7 sq mi (7,351 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 49677's 7,351 residents are about 32.1% of the 2024 county reporting population (22,891), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Osceola County leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses (mix index 2,989). ZIP 49677 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 49677

Similar county violent rate (~153/100K)

Similar Census population (~7,351)

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.