ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 52570

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

236
Property rate /100K (county)
1,012
Population (ZIP)
125
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 52570 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 52570 sits within Van Buren 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.

Van Buren County reported a violent-crime rate of 125 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 236 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 9 reported violent incidents across a county population of 7,203, 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 52570 carries a Census-reported population of 1,012, ranking #2 of 9 ZIPs in Van Buren County, spread across 65.58 square miles (about 15 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Van Buren County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Van Buren County crime page linked below.

ZIP 52570 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Van Buren County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 52570 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
$72,593
Median age
30.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
88%
Occupied homes
312

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

Van Buren County UCR book ZIP 52570 inherits

ZIP 52570 itself is about 15 people per Census sq mi across 65.6 sq mi (1,012 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 52570 accounts for roughly 14% of the county reporting population (1,012 of 7,203).

Van Buren County leans on larceny-theft at 31% of reported offenses (mix index 2,589). ZIP 52570 has no separate FBI offense book.

Van Buren County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -35% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Van Buren 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 52570

Similar Census population (~1,012)

County detail: Van Buren 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.