ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 52249
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)
- 960
- Population (ZIP)
- 94
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 52249 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 52249 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 52249 carries a Census-reported population of 960, ranking #12 of 16 ZIPs in Benton County, spread across 49.88 square miles (about 19 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 52249 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 52249 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
- $75,313
- Median age
- 42.1 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 85%
- Occupied homes
- 377
- Median home value
- $143,000
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 16.6%
- Poverty rate
- 8.2%
- Unemployment rate
- 0.9%
ZIP 52249's median home value of $143,000 sits higher than 50% 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 52249 inherits
ZIP 52249 itself is about 19 people per Census sq mi across 49.9 sq mi (960 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 52249 accounts for roughly 3.8% of the county reporting population (960 of 25,575).
Benton County leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses (mix index 3,170). ZIP 52249 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 52249
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.