ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 49735

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

140
Property rate /100K (county)
20,570
Population (ZIP)
68
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 49735 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 49735 sits within Otsego 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.

Otsego County reported a violent-crime rate of 68 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 140 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 17 reported violent incidents across a county population of 25,091, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

ZIP 49735 carries a Census-reported population of 20,570, ranking #1 of 3 ZIPs in Otsego County, spread across 248.58 square miles (about 83 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Otsego County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Otsego County crime page linked below.

ZIP 49735 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Otsego County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 49735 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
$63,549
Median age
44.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
74%
Occupied homes
8,862

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

Otsego County UCR book ZIP 49735 inherits

ZIP 49735 itself is about 83 people per Census sq mi across 248.6 sq mi (20,570 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 49735's 20,570 residents are about 82% of the 2024 county reporting population (25,091), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Otsego County leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses (mix index 3,343). ZIP 49735 has no separate FBI offense book.

Otsego County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +94% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Otsego 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 49735

Similar county violent rate (~68/100K)

Similar Census population (~20,570)

County detail: Otsego 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.