ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 50515
Palo Alto County, Iowa: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 345
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 271
- Population (ZIP)
- 67
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 50515 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 50515 sits within Palo Alto 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.
Palo Alto County reported a violent-crime rate of 67 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 345 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 6 reported violent incidents across a county population of 8,996, 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.
With 271 residents, ZIP 50515 is among the smaller ZIPs in Palo Alto County (#7 of 8 by population), spread across 38.36 square miles (7/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Palo Alto County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Palo Alto County crime page linked below.
ZIP 50515 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Palo Alto County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 50515 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
- $53,214
- Median age
- 33.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 74%
- Occupied homes
- 120
- Median home value
- $50,600
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 15.6%
- Poverty rate
- 22.7%
- Unemployment rate
- 0.0%
ZIP 50515's median home value of $50,600 is lower than 98% of the 841 IA ZIPs with a reported value, among the most affordable 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).
Palo Alto County UCR book ZIP 50515 inherits
ZIP 50515 itself is about 7 people per Census sq mi across 38.4 sq mi (271 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 50515 accounts for roughly 3% of the county reporting population (271 of 8,996).
Palo Alto County leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses (mix index 3,448). ZIP 50515 has no separate FBI offense book.
Palo Alto County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +3% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Palo Alto 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 50515
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.