ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 52253

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

189
Property rate /100K (county)
2,764
Population (ZIP)
59
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 52253 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 52253 sits within Cedar 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.

Cedar County reported a violent-crime rate of 59 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 189 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 11 reported violent incidents across a county population of 18,505, 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 52253 carries a Census-reported population of 2,764, ranking #4 of 9 ZIPs in Cedar County, spread across 47.08 square miles (about 59 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Cedar County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cedar County crime page linked below.

ZIP 52253 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Cedar County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 52253 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
$86,875
Median age
41.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
82%
Occupied homes
1,021

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

Cedar County UCR book ZIP 52253 inherits

ZIP 52253 itself is about 59 people per Census sq mi across 47.1 sq mi (2,764 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 52253 accounts for roughly 14.9% of the county reporting population (2,764 of 18,505).

Cedar County leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses (mix index 2,949). ZIP 52253 has no separate FBI offense book.

Cedar County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -10% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Cedar 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 52253

Similar county violent rate (~59/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,764)

County detail: Cedar 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.