ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 50266

Dallas County, Iowa: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-09-05

47
Property rate /100K (county)
35,508
Population (ZIP)
42
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 50266 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 50266 sits within Dallas 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: 42 violent incidents and 47 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 50266 is the largest ZIP in Dallas County by population, 35,508 residents (#1 of 13 county ZIPs), across 22.31 square miles (1,592/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Dallas County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Dallas County crime page linked below.

ZIP 50266 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Dallas County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 50266 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
$83,166
Median age
34.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
52%
Occupied homes
16,788
Median home value
$310,000
Bachelor's degree or higher
59.7%
Poverty rate
6.9%
Unemployment rate
3.1%

ZIP 50266's median home value of $310,000 is higher than 97% of the 841 IA ZIPs with a reported value, one of the priciest in the state by this measure.

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 50266?

Within the participating-agency records for Dallas County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 88% below and property crime is 97% 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 50266. 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.

Within the county, 50266 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 13). Its 35,508 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Dallas County UCR book ZIP 50266 inherits

ZIP 50266 itself is about 1,592 people per Census sq mi across 22.3 sq mi (35,508 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 50266's 35,508 residents are about 35.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (99,678), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Dallas County leans on aggravated assault at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 3,108). ZIP 50266 has no separate FBI offense book.

Dallas County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -9% vs 2023; property counts -20% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Dallas 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 50266

Similar county violent rate (~42/100K)

Similar Census population (~35,508)

County detail: Dallas 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.