ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 50401

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

70
Property rate /100K (county)
28,909
Population (ZIP)
12
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 50401 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 50401 sits within Cerro Gordo 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.

Cerro Gordo County reported a violent-crime rate of 12 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 70 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 5 reported violent incidents across a county population of 43,127, 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 50401 is the largest ZIP in Cerro Gordo County by population, 28,909 residents (#1 of 9 county ZIPs), across 148.17 square miles (195/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Cerro Gordo County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cerro Gordo County crime page linked below.

ZIP 50401 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Cerro Gordo County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 50401 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
$61,703
Median age
42.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
69%
Occupied homes
13,367

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

Cerro Gordo County UCR book ZIP 50401 inherits

ZIP 50401 itself is about 195 people per Census sq mi across 148.2 sq mi (28,909 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 50401's 28,909 residents are about 67% of the 2024 county reporting population (43,127), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Cerro Gordo County leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses (mix index 3,502). ZIP 50401 has no separate FBI offense book.

Cerro Gordo County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +11% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Cerro Gordo 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 50401

Similar county violent rate (~12/100K)

Similar Census population (~28,909)

County detail: Cerro Gordo 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.