Commerce Township ZIP Code Coverage
Official research verified two ZIP codes serving normal Commerce Township street addresses: 48382 and 48390. The table describes postal geography, not an ownership or resident roster. The township is an Oakland County charter township with lakes, roads, and neighboring communities that do not line up cleanly with a postal-city name. Check a specific delivery address before carrying a ZIP into a parcel, directory, deed, or voter-related request.
| ZIP | Areas Covered | Post Office | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48382 | Core Commerce Township postal geography, including Commerce Road and lake-area addresses | Commerce Township and other accepted mailing localities may display | Use USPS for an individual delivery address |
| 48390 | Commerce addresses in the Walled Lake and Wixom-facing portion of the township | Walled Lake Post Office, 995 N Pontiac Trail, Walled Lake | A Commerce resident can carry a Walled Lake or Wixom mailing label |
No third ZIP for a normal Commerce Township street address was verified in the official sources reviewed. No local ZIP split or realignment year was verified either. Note: the Michigan ZIP map is approximate and is not a legal boundary map.
Commerce Township ZIP Postal Labels
Commerce Township residents may have Walled Lake or Wixom mailing addresses. The Commerce Township Community Library card guidance specifically warns about that address issue. It is a local geography fact, not an error that a researcher can correct by changing the postal city in a record. A Property Gateway parcel, BS&A tax record, deed, or township request should retain the exact address and the municipality or CVT shown by that custodian.
Three address concepts should stay separate. The situs address is the parcel’s physical location. The tax-bill mailing address is where the owner receives correspondence and may be outside the township. A legal description and Oakland County ten-digit PIN are real-property identifiers that can survive a changed postal label. Treat the delivery ZIP as a starting point, not as a civil-boundary decision.
Confirm a Commerce Township ZIP
Use the USPS location lookup to check the post-office service route for a particular address or to confirm the Walled Lake office connection. Township reference material also identifies the Milford Post Office at 1150 Atlantic Street, Milford, as a service reference. A post-office location is not an authoritative parcel boundary, but it is the appropriate fallback when an address has an uncertain delivery ZIP.
After USPS returns a delivery result, record the street, postal city, ZIP, and date checked. If that text fails in a county parcel search, try the street number fragment, a street wildcard, the Commerce Township label, or a map click rather than assuming the ZIP was wrong.
Find Records in Commerce Township ZIPs
A ZIP-wide resident list is not a documented Commerce public tool. The usable method narrows an address group into individual parcel and record searches. Property Gateway has no ZIP-only control, and the Michigan voter-status service is for an individual’s status and polling information, not an unrestricted list by ZIP. Those limits make the record role and the search key important.
- Confirm the delivery ZIP with USPS and preserve the returned street address and postal city.
- Search the address or a short street fragment in Oakland Property Gateway, then record the displayed situs address, PIN, and CVT.
- Use Commerce BS&A by address, name, or parcel number for current municipal tax, property, or permit routes, subject to the fields actually displayed.
- For a public voter-record question, use the individual Michigan.gov/Vote path or make a precise MDOS Qualified Voter File request by address, precinct, jurisdiction, or election date.
- Move from a narrowed street to the Commerce Township street directory only when the question becomes parcel-by-parcel or street-by-street.
The fallback sequence is also local: ask the Commerce Township Clerk for a narrow record category through the township FOIA route, ask the county custodian about records it holds, or use OCPHS and the library for historical address sources.
Commerce Township ZIP Parcel Fields
Oakland County Property Gateway is the strongest documented county portal for turning a ZIP-confirmed address into a parcel search. It does not offer a ZIP filter. Instead, it accepts a PIN or property address, allows a map click, and supports partial, wildcard, and multiple-PIN searching. Reports and maps may carry a fee, while the search and map-browse route are the public starting channels.
| Portal field or control | Type | Required | Format or use |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIN or Property Address | Text search | At least five characters | Enter an address or PIN. Partial examples include 1200 S and 123 S V. |
| Wildcard address | Text pattern | Optional | Examples documented by the portal include 1% Main and 1% S% M. |
| Partial or multiple PINs | Text search | Optional | A partial PIN and comma-separated PINs can narrow a known parcel group. |
| Map parcel | Map action | Optional | Pan, zoom, and click a parcel when text does not resolve. |
The Property Gateway search screen shows the address-or-PIN starting point used after a Commerce Township ZIP is verified.
The screenshot supports an address-to-parcel workflow, not a ZIP-wide resident search. Save the returned situs, PIN, and municipality context before opening another record system.
Commerce BS&A separately advertises address, name, and parcel-number searching, plus Current Tax, Detailed Record, and Building Department Record routes. The inspected research did not expose its live advanced-field labels or a ZIP filter, so those fields should be checked in the current interface before relying on a result. Note: records from different municipalities can update on different schedules in Property Gateway.
Commerce Township ZIP Code Terms
Postal terms are useful only when they are read narrowly. A ZIP identifies a delivery area. It does not replace the parcel PIN, legal description, or the township and county field used by a government record. A PO box may receive mail under a ZIP that is not the address where a person or parcel is located.
- ZIP and ZIP+4
- A five-digit ZIP identifies a broad delivery area. ZIP+4 adds a delivery segment for more precise sorting and is not a parcel identifier.
- PO-box ZIP
- A code used for post-office boxes. It should not be treated as a street-delivery location without a separate address record.
- Unique ZIP
- A ZIP assigned to one institution or large organization. No Commerce-specific unique ZIP was verified in the research.
- Carrier route
- A mail-delivery grouping within a postal area. It is not a township boundary or a list of residents.
For a Commerce record search, the safest order is delivery ZIP, exact situs address, PIN or legal description, then the custodian’s dated result. That sequence keeps postal sorting information from being mistaken for a property or residency finding.
Commerce Township ZIP Precincts
ZIP codes and election precincts are different geographies. Commerce Township’s elections material identifies precincts 1 through 8 and a temporary 2026 precinct-9 arrangement, but the correct unit for election administration is the address, precinct, and jurisdiction, not the ZIP. Michigan.gov/Vote, also called MVIC, is the official status and polling-place route for an individual voter.
Michigan registration records are public subject to limits, but driver-license or state-ID numbers, month and day of birth, and telephone numbers are withheld. For historical or broader voter-file questions, the MDOS Qualified Voter File request form supports defined requests by such fields as address, jurisdiction, precinct, election date, or voter name. Ask the office for the current format and fee. A ZIP code is not a substitute for that scope.
Historic Commerce Township ZIP Clues
Older Commerce records can predate modern ZIP usage or use a rural route, a telephone exchange, a community name, or a street spelling unlike current delivery text. The 1942 to 1943 Pontiac-Bloomfield-Hills-Commerce directory and the 1944 Pontiac-Commerce telephone directory are documented at OCPHS. North Oakland criss-cross volumes for 1957, 1958, and 1960 and the 1967 to 1968 Bresser cross-index offer address-first historical paths.
Use the old street and house number first, then preserve the telephone exchange or community label as a clue. A 1966 Oakland County Directory sample had a Commerce exchange on an entry with White Lake Township as the municipality. The exchange is therefore a matching detail, not proof of the township. OCPHS, the Commerce library research desk, historic maps, the parcel PIN, and the deed chain are the documented ways to test a historic address.
Commerce Township ZIP Parcel Labels
A ten-digit Oakland County PIN is more stable than postal-city text when a Commerce address appears under more than one mailing label. Property Gateway defines the PIN as the county parcel identifier and pairs it with a city, village, or township code called CVT. Capture the PIN, CVT, situs address, postal text, and search date together. That record note can then connect the same location to a deed search, a plat, a permit request, or a historical directory entry without treating any one label as conclusive.
Use the map when an address string is unreliable. Search a documented street fragment, zoom to the likely parcel, click its polygon, and record the displayed PIN. If the parcel has been split, combined, or described by lot and block rather than a street number, preserve the legal description as well. The county mapping service offers free and fee-based layers and can route a researcher to a custom map when the viewer is not enough.
The PIN does not identify every person at an address. It identifies a parcel. Owner, tax mailing, permit, recorded-party, historical-directory, and voter-record results remain separate categories with different dates and access rules.
Commerce Township ZIP Boundaries
Commerce is a charter township, not an incorporated city, and its postal footprint crosses nearby identities. The Michigan DTMB ZIP boundary map identifies 48382 and 48390 in the area, but the research explicitly treats it as approximate rather than a legal boundary. USPS verifies delivery. The township, Oakland County, and a parcel’s PIN or legal description identify the government-record geography.
No official Commerce ZIP mismatch table, per-ZIP population table, or ZIP realignment history was located. A failed text search is not evidence that the address lies outside Commerce. Try the postal variation, the number-and-street fragment, a map click, the PIN, or a township and county office request before drawing a boundary conclusion.