ZIP code 49934

ZIP 49934 is a very small community in Houghton County, Michigan, with 949 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #821 of 992 ranked by population — larger than 17% of them. The median age here is 40.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in ZIP 49934 earn a median of $48,563 a year, 38.2% below the national figure of $78,538. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 5.3% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 49934 is valued at $81,500, 73.1% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $784 a month, 44.2% below the national figure, or roughly $9,408 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.4% 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 1.7×, 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. 92.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. 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.

With 949 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 49934 against its county rather than against national figures.

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 49934 is tabulated inside Houghton County, Michigan, one of 18 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 992 across Michigan. Fewer than 2,500 people are counted here, so the ZIP behaves like a village delivery route rather than a neighbourhood. 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 49934 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 49934 reports a median household income of $48,563, 12% below the $55,275 county median, and 27% below the $66,726 typical MI ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $81,500, 24% below the county figure and 55% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $784 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 49934.

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 49934 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.