ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 50573

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

113
Property rate /100K (county)
68
Population (ZIP)
42
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 50573 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 50573 sits within Pocahontas 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.

Pocahontas County reported a violent-crime rate of 42 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 113 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 3 reported violent incidents across a county population of 7,078, 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 68 residents, ZIP 50573 is among the smaller ZIPs in Pocahontas County (#8 of 9 by population), spread across 0.43 square miles (158/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Pocahontas County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Pocahontas County crime page linked below.

ZIP 50573 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Pocahontas County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 50573 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
$48,125
Median age
24.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
72%
Occupied homes
25
Bachelor's degree or higher
0.0%
Poverty rate
0.0%
Unemployment rate
14.7%

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

Pocahontas County UCR book ZIP 50573 inherits

ZIP 50573 itself is about 158 people per Census sq mi across 0.4 sq mi (68 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 50573 is about 1% of the county reporting population (68 of 7,078), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Pocahontas County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 11 offenses; mix index 4,545). ZIP 50573 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Pocahontas County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -53% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Pocahontas 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 50573

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.