ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 52802
Scott County, Iowa: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 88
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 9,557
- Population (ZIP)
- 17
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 52802 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 52802 sits within Scott County, IA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 17 violent incidents and 88 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 52802 carries a Census-reported population of 9,557, ranking #7 of 20 ZIPs in Scott County, spread across 10.43 square miles (about 916 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Scott County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Scott County crime page linked below.
ZIP 52802 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Scott County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 52802 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
- $47,170
- Median age
- 40.9 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 73%
- Occupied homes
- 3,792
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 52802?
Within the participating-agency records for Scott County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 95% below and property crime is 95% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 52802. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.
ZIP 52802 sits near the middle of Scott County's ZIP population ordering (#7 of 20). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Scott County UCR book ZIP 52802 inherits
ZIP 52802 itself is about 916 people per Census sq mi across 10.4 sq mi (9,557 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 52802 accounts for roughly 5.5% of the county reporting population (9,557 of 174,669).
Scott County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 184 offenses; mix index 4,789). ZIP 52802 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Scott County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -19% vs 2023; property counts +12% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Scott 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 52802
Similar county violent rate (~17/100K)
- ZIP 72916, AR · 17.2/100K · Sebastian County
- ZIP 38651, MS · 17.3/100K · DeSoto County
- ZIP 54971, WI · 17.3/100K · Fond du Lac County
- ZIP 13118, NY · 17/100K · Cayuga County
Similar Census population (~9,557)
- ZIP 82633, WY · 9,555 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 55355, MN · 9,552 pop · Δ5
- ZIP 56011, MN · 9,564 pop · Δ7
- ZIP 60449, IL · 9,564 pop · Δ7
County detail: Scott 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.