ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 52232

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

241
Property rate /100K (county)
306
Population (ZIP)
102
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 52232 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 52232 sits within Poweshiek 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.

Poweshiek County reported a violent-crime rate of 102 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 241 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 19 reported violent incidents across a county population of 18,662, 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 306 residents, ZIP 52232 is among the smaller ZIPs in Poweshiek County (#8 of 8 by population), spread across 21.27 square miles (14/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Poweshiek County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Poweshiek County crime page linked below.

ZIP 52232 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Poweshiek County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 52232 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
$85,000
Median age
28.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
89%
Occupied homes
90
Median home value
$225,000
Bachelor's degree or higher
14.7%
Poverty rate
0.3%
Unemployment rate
0.0%

ZIP 52232's median home value of $225,000 sits higher than 85% 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).

Poweshiek County UCR book ZIP 52232 inherits

ZIP 52232 itself is about 14 people per Census sq mi across 21.3 sq mi (306 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 52232 is about 1.6% of the county reporting population (306 of 18,662), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Poweshiek County keeps 5 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,397); larceny-theft still leads at 38%. ZIP 52232 inherits the county book.

Poweshiek County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -17% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Poweshiek 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 52232

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.

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.