ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 52229

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

270
Property rate /100K (county)
849
Population (ZIP)
94
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 52229 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 52229 sits within Benton 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.

Benton County reported a violent-crime rate of 94 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 270 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 24 reported violent incidents across a county population of 25,575, 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.

ZIP 52229 carries a Census-reported population of 849, ranking #13 of 16 ZIPs in Benton County, spread across 52.64 square miles (about 16 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Benton County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Benton County crime page linked below.

ZIP 52229 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Benton County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 52229 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
$85,119
Median age
40.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
81%
Occupied homes
324
Median home value
$165,700
Bachelor's degree or higher
14.9%
Poverty rate
18.3%
Unemployment rate
1.0%

ZIP 52229's median home value of $165,700 sits higher than 63% 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).

Benton County UCR book ZIP 52229 inherits

ZIP 52229 itself is about 16 people per Census sq mi across 52.6 sq mi (849 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 52229 accounts for roughly 3.3% of the county reporting population (849 of 25,575).

Benton County leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses (mix index 3,170). ZIP 52229 has no separate FBI offense book.

Benton County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +1% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Benton 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 52229

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.