ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 50531
Emmet County, Iowa: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 21
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 232
- Population (ZIP)
- 0
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 50531 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 50531 sits within Emmet 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.
Emmet County reported a violent-crime rate of 0 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 21 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 0 reported violent incidents across a county population of 9,388, 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 232 residents, ZIP 50531 is among the smaller ZIPs in Emmet County (#5 of 5 by population), spread across 38.8 square miles (6/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Emmet County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Emmet County crime page linked below.
ZIP 50531 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Emmet County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 50531 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
- $78,036
- Median age
- 59.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 92%
- Occupied homes
- 111
- Median home value
- $127,400
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 3.4%
- Poverty rate
- 19.8%
- Unemployment rate
- 0.0%
ZIP 50531's median home value of $127,400 sits higher than 40% 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).
Emmet County UCR book ZIP 50531 inherits
ZIP 50531 itself is about 6 people per Census sq mi across 38.8 sq mi (232 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 50531 accounts for roughly 2.5% of the county reporting population (232 of 9,388).
Emmet County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (50% of 2 offenses; mix index 5,000). ZIP 50531 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Emmet County 2024 vs 2023: property counts flat vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Emmet 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 50531
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.