ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 52053

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

99
Property rate /100K (county)
1,317
Population (ZIP)
42
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 52053 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 52053 sits within Dubuque County, IA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 42 violent incidents and 99 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 52053 carries a Census-reported population of 1,317, ranking #9 of 13 ZIPs in Dubuque County, spread across 58.45 square miles (about 23 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Dubuque County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Dubuque County crime page linked below.

ZIP 52053 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Dubuque County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 52053 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
$114,265
Median age
34.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
78%
Occupied homes
448

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

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 52053?

Within the participating-agency records for Dubuque County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 88% below and property crime is 94% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 52053. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.

52053 is comparatively spread out at about 23 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

Dubuque County UCR book ZIP 52053 inherits

ZIP 52053 itself is about 23 people per Census sq mi across 58.5 sq mi (1,317 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 52053 is about 1.3% of the county reporting population (1,317 of 99,266), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Dubuque County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 2,843). ZIP 52053 has no separate FBI offense book.

Dubuque County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +40% vs 2023; property counts -30% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Dubuque 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 52053

Similar county violent rate (~42/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,317)

County detail: Dubuque 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.