ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 50212
Boone County, Iowa: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 60
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 3,053
- Population (ZIP)
- 41
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 50212 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 50212 sits within Boone County, IA. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.
Boone County reported a violent-crime rate of 41 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 60 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 11 reported violent incidents across a county population of 26,715, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.
ZIP 50212 carries a Census-reported population of 3,053, ranking #3 of 8 ZIPs in Boone County, spread across 132.08 square miles (about 23 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Boone County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Boone County crime page linked below.
ZIP 50212 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Boone County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 50212 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
- $76,680
- Median age
- 40.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 80%
- Occupied homes
- 1,239
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
Boone County UCR book ZIP 50212 inherits
ZIP 50212 itself is about 23 people per Census sq mi across 132.1 sq mi (3,053 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 50212 accounts for roughly 11.4% of the county reporting population (3,053 of 26,715).
Boone County leans on larceny-theft at 33% of reported offenses (mix index 2,675). ZIP 50212 has no separate FBI offense book.
Boone County 2024 vs 2023: property counts flat vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Boone 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.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 50212
Similar county violent rate (~41/100K)
- ZIP 94525, CA · 41.1/100K · Contra Costa County
- ZIP 92549, CA · 41.3/100K · Riverside County
- ZIP 30563, GA · 41.3/100K · Habersham County
- ZIP 88135, NM · 41.3/100K · Curry County
Similar Census population (~3,053)
- ZIP 54135, WI · 3,053 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 75433, TX · 3,053 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 35118, AL · 3,052 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 56087, MN · 3,054 pop · Δ1
County detail: Boone County · State atlas: Iowa
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.