Home age in ZIP 49440, Muskegon, MI: median built 1942

Home age is not roof age, and the Census does not record replacements. ZIP 49440 in Muskegon, MI: median home built 1942; 76.7% of homes (660) are older than 25 years and 22.8% (196) were built since 2010, out of 860 homes.

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019 to 2023 (5-year estimates), retrieved October 9, 2026. Area = Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area 49440.

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Share of homes in ZIP 49440 by decade builtColumns from the pre-1940 decade on the left to 2020 and later on the right. pre-1940 49.1 percent; 1940s 5 percent; 1950s 3.1 percent; 1960s 13.6 percent; 1970s 4.7 percent; 1980s 0 percent; 1990s 1.3 percent; 2000s 0.5 percent; 2010s 22.8 percent; 2020+ 0 percentpre-1940: 422 homes, 49.1%49.1%pre-1940Muskegon County: 16.1%1940s: 43 homes, 5.0%5%1940sMuskegon County: 10.4%1950s: 27 homes, 3.1%3.1%1950sMuskegon County: 14.9%1960s: 117 homes, 13.6%13.6%1960sMuskegon County: 10.3%1970s: 40 homes, 4.7%4.7%1970sMuskegon County: 13.4%1980s: 0 homes, 0.0%0%1980sMuskegon County: 7.4%1990s: 11 homes, 1.3%1.3%1990sMuskegon County: 13.0%2000s: 4 homes, 0.5%0.5%2000sMuskegon County: 10.2%2010s: 196 homes, 22.8%22.8%2010sMuskegon County: 4.0%2020+: 0 homes, 0.0%0%2020+Muskegon County: 0.4%Built 1999 or earlier: 76.7% of homes (660)ZIP 49440, built before 2000built 2000 or laterMuskegon County

Share of the 860 housing units in the ZIP, by decade built. The red marks are Muskegon County. This counts houses, not roofs: a roof is replaced several times in the life of a house, and no federal survey records when.

ZIP 49440 next to Muskegon and Muskegon County

IndicatorZIP 49440MuskegonMuskegon CountyRank among 1 ZIPs of Muskegon on this site
Housing units86016,02374,969
Median year built194219491968
Built before 198075.5%83.1%65%
Built before 200076.7%no data85.4%
Built since 201022.8%no data4.4%
Owner-occupied homes28%54.2%78.3%
Single-family units26.9%68.2%no data
Median home value$163,100 (+/- $56,623)$121,800$180,900
Median household income$42,500 (+/- $10,804)$46,342no data

City figures are for the Census place, county figures for the county; “no data” means the Census file does not publish that figure. Value and income are survey estimates, the plus-or-minus is the 90% margin of error.

Every decade in ZIP 49440

BuiltShare of Muskegon CountyShare of ZIPHomes in ZIP 49440
2020+0.4%0.0%0
2010s4.0%22.8%196
2000s10.2%0.5%4
1990s13.0%1.3%11
1980s7.4%0.0%0
1970s13.4%4.7%40
1960s10.3%13.6%117
1950s14.9%3.1%27
1940s10.4%5.0%43
pre-194016.1%49.1%422

Counts are Census estimates of housing units by year built (table B25034). If a roof had never been replaced, it would be 3 to 6 years old on a house from the 2020s, 17 to 26 on one from the 2000s, 37 to 46 on one from the 1980s and 87 or more on one from before 1940. Most older houses have had at least one replacement, and the Census does not record when.

What the numbers say about ZIP 49440

ZIP 49440 has 860 housing units: 660 (76.7%) were built before 2000, 196 (22.8%) in 2010 or later, and 422 (49.1%) before 1940, its largest era. The median year built is 1942 (Muskegon: 1949), so 7 years older than the city.

Housing mix and money, from the same survey: 28% of occupied homes are owner-occupied; 26.9% of units are single-family houses; the median owner-occupied home is valued at $163,100, give or take $56,623; median household income is $42,500, give or take $10,804; the ZIP holds 5.4% of the housing units the Census counts in Muskegon, 860 of them. These are survey estimates with margins of error, and for a small ZIP the margin can be wide.

Reading this for roofs, carefully: the Census records when a house was built, never when its roof was last replaced. If every roof were still the one installed with its house, 649 units (75.5%, built before 1990) would be past the 30-year top of the usual asphalt-shingle range, 11 (1.3%, the 1990s) would mostly sit past it, 4 (0.5%, the 2000s) would mostly be inside the 20 to 30 year window and 196 (22.8%, 2010 onward) would be younger than it. Most older roofs have been replaced, so treat these as the pool of houses where an old roof is possible, not as a count of old roofs.

Roof age calculator for ZIP 49440

Enter the year your house was built, and the year the roof was last replaced if you know it. It starts at the median year built for this ZIP. The share of neighbours’ homes older than yours comes from this ZIP’s own decade counts.

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–of homes in ZIP 49440 are older
–vs. the ZIP median year built

Material ranges are general planning figures (the same ones as on our roof-age page), not warranties. Sun, storms, attic ventilation and installation quality move them. The decade shares assume homes were built evenly within each decade. This is not an inspection: a roofer on the roof decides.

Map: ZIP 49440 among Muskegon’s ZIP areas

Map of ZIP 49440 and nearby ZIP areas, shaded by the share of homes built before 2000ZIP 49440: 860 homes, 76.7% built before 2000, median year 194249440
  • under 20% built before 2000
  • 40 to 60%
  • 80% or more
  • Dot size = housing units. Red ring = ZIP 49440. Click a dot to open that ZIP.

Storm backdrop: Muskegon County

A ZIP is too small for its own hail record, so this is the county. FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Muskegon County Relatively Low overall (70.1 of 100), Relatively Low for hail (51.1), Relatively High for strong wind (96.4) and Relatively Moderate for tornado (80.4). NOAA logged 8 hail reports in the county, on 6 days with hail of 1 inch or more in the full years 2014 to 2025.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 version, county level. This product uses FEMA’s National Risk Index data but is not endorsed by FEMA.

Where to go from here

Other roofing cities near ZIP 49440: Grand Rapids, MI (35 miles), Kalamazoo, MI (74 miles), Battle Creek, MI (84 miles).

Questions

How old are the homes in ZIP 49440?

Of the 860 housing units, 649 (75.5%) were built before 1980, 660 (76.7%) before 2000 and 196 (22.8%) from 2010 on (Census ACS 2019 to 2023, survey estimate).

Does a house's age tell me how old its roof is in 49440?

No. ACS records the year the structure was built, not the year the roof was last replaced. With 649 units built before 1980 in this ZIP, many roofs are replacements rather than originals. Ask the seller for permit records or have a roofer inspect the roof.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2019 to 2023, tables B25034 (year structure built), B25035, B25003, B25024, B25077 and B19013, ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; ZIP-to-city assignment from the Census 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file (a ZIP is assigned to a city when more than half of its land area lies inside it). A ZCTA is not a USPS ZIP code: it approximates one and can differ at the edges. Public domain. The 12 ZIP-specific figures above differ from ZIP to ZIP.

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