PlainZIP

Gaines, MI

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Gaines, MI: 1 USPS ZIP, population 3,764. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

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ACS city ledger plate

Sheet GAINES-MI · Gaines, MI 1 ZIPs · 3,764 pop · #5398/25278 · Genesee County

INC-HIGH · RANK-UPPER · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-MID

  • INC-HIGH $94,487
  • RANK-UPPER #5398/25278
  • BELOW-PEER under Linden
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-HIGH 92% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 3,764
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-MID $276,000

Nearest income peer: Linden, MI (+ $5,456 income $)

Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.

Income neighbourhood around Gaines

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Gaines on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.

median HH income

What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.

Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-25

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Gaines, MI sits among US cities with an upper-quartile household income, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

Top 21%
household income vs 25,278 US cities
3,764
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$94,487
avg ZIP median income

Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.

High-income footprint on only 1 ZIP: the city page and the ZIP page nearly coincide. Headline income $94,487 and home value $276,000 should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 19.0%.

Owner-occupancy here runs high (91.8%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.

Within Michigan, Hopkins is the closest lower-income city and Laingsburg the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Gaines.

Population concentration

Gaines reads through its lone ZIP, 48436

3,764 ACS residents, one ZIP: 48436 is not the leading code inside Gaines, it is the only one on file. Treat the ZIP page as the primary source for anything below the city-wide total.

Census ZBP business roll-up

Sparse ZBP book inside single-ZIP Gaines

Citywide ZBP: 36 establishments, 140 employees , annual payroll $8,519k (~10 establishments per 1,000 residents) across 1 of 1 ZIPs. Peak business ZIP 48436 (36 units) ; leading NAICS Construction (13) · also Other services (except public administration) · Retail trade .

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ZIP Codes in Gaines, MI

These ZIP codes sit in Genesee County, which covers 28 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Gaines. See the Genesee County roll-up →

Gaines sits in the upper half of Genesee County on income: Flint, Grand Blanc and Davison report less, while Fenton, Linden and Goodrich report more. Flint marks the far end of that range at $46,128, 51% below Gaines.

ZIP Code Population Median income Establishments Density
48436 3,764 $94,487 36 46
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