ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 52544

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

422
Property rate /100K (county)
7,873
Population (ZIP)
16
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 52544 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 52544 sits within Appanoose 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.

Appanoose County reported a violent-crime rate of 16 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 422 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 2 reported violent incidents across a county population of 12,317, 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 52544 is the largest ZIP in Appanoose County by population, 7,873 residents (#1 of 9 county ZIPs), across 138.35 square miles (57/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Appanoose County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Appanoose County crime page linked below.

ZIP 52544 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Appanoose County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 52544 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
$43,810
Median age
45.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
63%
Occupied homes
3,308

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

Appanoose County UCR book ZIP 52544 inherits

ZIP 52544 itself is about 57 people per Census sq mi across 138.4 sq mi (7,873 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 52544's 7,873 residents are about 63.9% of the 2024 county reporting population (12,317), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Appanoose County leans on larceny-theft at 39% of reported offenses (mix index 3,230). ZIP 52544 has no separate FBI offense book.

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

Appanoose 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 52544

Similar county violent rate (~16/100K)

Similar Census population (~7,873)

County detail: Appanoose 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.