ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 50459

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

81
Property rate /100K (county)
3,046
Population (ZIP)
40
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 50459 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 50459 sits within Worth 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.

Worth County reported a violent-crime rate of 40 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 81 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 3 reported violent incidents across a county population of 7,443, 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 50459 is the largest ZIP in Worth County by population, 3,046 residents (#1 of 7 county ZIPs), across 142.8 square miles (21/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Worth County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Worth County crime page linked below.

ZIP 50459 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Worth County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 50459 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
$72,708
Median age
43.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
82%
Occupied homes
1,242
Median home value
$145,400
Bachelor's degree or higher
20.4%
Poverty rate
5.9%
Unemployment rate
3.9%

ZIP 50459's median home value of $145,400 sits higher than 51% 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).

Worth County UCR book ZIP 50459 inherits

ZIP 50459 itself is about 21 people per Census sq mi across 142.8 sq mi (3,046 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 50459's 3,046 residents are about 40.9% of the 2024 county reporting population (7,443), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Worth County leans on burglary at 56% of reported offenses (mix index 3,827). ZIP 50459 has no separate FBI offense book.

Worth County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -65% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Worth 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 50459

Similar Census population (~3,046)

County detail: Worth 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.