ZIP code 49858

ZIP 49858 is a mid-size town in Menominee County, Michigan, with 11,870 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #296 of 992 ranked by population — larger than 70% of them. The median age here is 50.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 49858 earn a median of $52,813 a year, 32.8% below the national figure of $78,538. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 13.6% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 49858 is valued at $127,100, 58.1% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $691 a month, 50.9% below the national figure, or roughly $8,292 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 75.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 50.5 puts ZIP 49858 well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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 49858 is tabulated inside Menominee County, Michigan, one of 12 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 992 across Michigan. This is a mid-sized ZIP that covers a large share of its county's addresses. 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 49858 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 49858 reports a median household income of $52,813, 9% below the $58,099 county median, and 21% below the $66,726 typical MI ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $127,100, 14% below the county figure and 29% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $691 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 49858.

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 49858 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.