ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 50160
Warren County, Iowa: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 130
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 579
- Population (ZIP)
- 59
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 50160 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 50160 sits within Warren County, IA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 59 violent incidents and 130 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 50160 carries a Census-reported population of 579, ranking #9 of 12 ZIPs in Warren County, spread across 0.37 square miles (about 1,565 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Warren County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Warren County crime page linked below.
ZIP 50160 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Warren County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 50160 Census context
These are ZIP/ZCTA demographic estimates, separate from the county-level FBI proxy above. They describe the local settlement, not a crime rate.
- Median household income
- $46,786
- Median age
- 39.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 74%
- Occupied homes
- 254
- Median home value
- $158,500
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 13.9%
- Poverty rate
- 12.3%
- Unemployment rate
- 6.3%
ZIP 50160's median home value of $158,500 sits higher than 60% of the 841 IA ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 50160?
Within the participating-agency records for Warren County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 83% below and property crime is 92% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 50160. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.
ZIP 50160 sits near the middle of Warren County's ZIP population ordering (#9 of 12). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Warren County UCR book ZIP 50160 inherits
ZIP 50160 itself is about 1,565 people per Census sq mi across 0.4 sq mi (579 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 50160 is about 1.1% of the county reporting population (579 of 52,403), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Warren County leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses (mix index 3,578). ZIP 50160 has no separate FBI offense book.
Warren County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +29% vs 2023; property counts -23% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Warren County offense mix (2024)
Mix index is HHI × 10,000 on county offense-type shares. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero; still county-agency data, not a ZIP-native FBI table.
Read with ZIP 50160
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau (ZIP population, land area, 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file, ACS 5-year estimates) and FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10 (county-level crime, attributed via ZIP-to-county crosswalk).
Verify with Census.gov Geography and FBI.gov UCR.
Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page combines Census ZIP-level figures with a ZIP-to-county crosswalk to attribute FBI UCR crime data honestly, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.