48230Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 48230.

70out of 100
Area Score
Top 19% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 40% of 6,210 ZIP areas measured59
SchoolsTop 14% of 4,422 ZIP areas measured80
Growth4387th of 5,428 ZIP areas measured31
Housing affordabilityTop 19% of 6,685 ZIP areas measured96
Climate4822nd of 6,789 ZIP areas measured63
Physical resilienceTop 21% of 6,709 ZIP areas measured81
Access4204th of 6,791 ZIP areas measured89
Economic stabilityTop 11% of 6,742 ZIP areas measured80
The quick read

Unemployment is 6.5% and median household income $137,310, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 13% of median household income and the median home is 3.4 times it.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published ZIP profiles, placing 48230 in the top 21% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
17,174
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$137,310
Top 6% nationally
Density
5,276/sq mi
3.3 sq mi of land
Median age
42.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Grosse Pointe Park
Michigan
Metro area
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
Nearest major airport
DTW
25 mi · Detroit Metro Wayne County
Median home value
$466,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 6.5% is lower than 5% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment grew 0.9% over the past year, to 773,257 employed residents.

73% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 97% of measured US ZIP areas.

Household income is higher than at least 94% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$21,063$137,310Top 6%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$7,195$78,307Top 4%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate4.4%Bottom 16%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute26.4 minBottom 42%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher73.5%Top 3%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment773,257Top 7%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.1%Bottom 48%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)0.9%Top 14%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force826,573Top 6%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation69.6%Top 16%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$69,210Top 44%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$52,080Top 38%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.8%Top 15%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate6.5%Top 5%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024137k125k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $137,310 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators55,100$49,240
Retail Salespersons48,610$35,130
Home Health and Personal Care Aides46,480$35,120
Registered Nurses44,310$97,280
Fast Food and Counter Workers42,430$29,590
Cashiers37,910$30,090

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Grosse Pointe Park, MI, the city containing this ZIP code.

67% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 74% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 18.6 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
3
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
67.5%
Top 5% in Michigan
Reading proficiency
73.8%
Top 7% in Michigan
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Pierce Middle SchoolGrosse Pointe Public Schools57019.760%73%
George Defer Elementary SchoolGrosse Pointe Public Schools46017.070%71%
Lewis Maire Elementary SchoolGrosse Pointe Public Schools25219.479%79%

9.4% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Michigan’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,479 takes 13% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.4 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
12.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.4×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,479
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$466,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income3.39Top 42%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate78.5%Bottom 49%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2787,397Top 21%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$161$1,479Top 22%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$19,134$466,100Top 15%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income12.9%Bottom 16%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate6.6%Bottom 31%of 33,0282024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
31/ 100
Ranks 4387 of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 0.3 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
3
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.3
Bottom 11% nationally
Year over year
0%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Grosse Pointe Park, MI, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 84°F and January a low of 20°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 29.9 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 55, in the Moderate band, and about 8 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station DETROIT CITY AP, 4.9 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND3.5"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index74.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation29.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low20°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high84°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10082024 calendar year
Median air quality index55.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing48°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
55
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
74
90th percentile index
Days above 100
8
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

81 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are strong wind and winter weather.

Strong windModerate
Winter weatherModerate

Low or minimal exposure: cold wave, tornado, inland flooding, heat wave, ice storm, lightning, earthquake, landslide, hurricane, wildfire, coastal flooding, hail.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Wayne County records 12.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 17.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 29.2 per 100,000 residents in Wayne County.

Homicide
12.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
17.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
29.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
11.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Wayne County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 48230 rather than 48230 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 25 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Detroit Metro Wayne CountyDTW25 mi12,003 ft
Eugene F Kranz Toledo ExpressTOL71 mi10,600 ft
Cleveland-Hopkins IntlCLE87 mi9,953 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

48230 vs Grosse Pointe Park

How this ZIP area compares with Grosse Pointe Park as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

48230
Grosse Pointe Park
Median household income
$137,310
vs
$124,111
Per capita income
$78,307
vs
$75,142
Population density
5,276/sq mi
vs
5,226/sq mi
Median home value
$466,100
vs
$473,100
Median gross rent
$1,479
vs
$1,379
Homeownership rate
78.5%
vs
74.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher
73.5%
vs
73.3%
Poverty rate
4.4%
vs
4.9%
Median age
42.4
vs
41.4

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.