ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 50643

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

3,063
Population (ZIP)
5
Violent rate /100K (county)
74
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 50643 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 50643 sits within Black Hawk County, IA, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.

ZIP 50643 carries a Census-reported population of 3,063, ranking #8 of 12 ZIPs in Black Hawk County, spread across 57.62 square miles (about 53 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Black Hawk County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Black Hawk County crime page linked below.

ZIP 50643 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Black Hawk County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 50643 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
$109,917
Median age
41.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
91%
Occupied homes
1,129

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

ZIP 50643 settlement vs Black Hawk County

ZIP 50643 itself is about 53 people per Census sq mi across 57.6 sq mi (3,063 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 50643 accounts for roughly 2.3% of the county reporting population (3,063 of 131,144).

Black Hawk County leans on burglary at 48% of reported offenses (mix index 3,563). ZIP 50643 has no separate FBI offense book.

Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 50643

Similar county violent rate (~5/100K)

Similar Census population (~3,063)

County detail: Black Hawk 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.