ZIP code 49504

ZIP 49504 is a small city in Kent County, Michigan, with 40,402 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #34 of 992 ranked by population — larger than 96% of them. The median age here is 32.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in ZIP 49504 earn a median of $68,326 a year, 13% below the national figure of $78,538. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 15.6% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 49504 is valued at $222,600, 26.6% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,145 a month, 18.6% below the national figure, or roughly $13,740 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.1% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 58% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

ZIP 49504 is tabulated inside Kent County, Michigan, one of 27 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 992 across Michigan. This is a dense urban ZIP, where a single postal boundary can hold more residents than an entire rural county. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 49504 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 49504 reports a median household income of $68,326, 13% below the $78,824 county median, and close to the $66,726 typical MI ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $222,600, 14% below the county figure and 24% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,145 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Michigan charges 6% statewide, and no local sales tax is layered on top, so the state rate is the full amount collected in 49504.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 49504 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.