ZIP code 52232

ZIP 52232 is a very small community in Poweshiek County, Iowa, with 335 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #774 of 970 ranked by population — larger than 20% of them. The median age here is 28.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in ZIP 52232 earn a median of $95,313 a year, 21.4% above the national figure of $78,538. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 0.3% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 52232 is valued at $234,800, 22.6% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $771 a month, 45.2% below the national figure, or roughly $9,252 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 9.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 90.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 28.2 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 335 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 52232 against its county rather than against national figures.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

ZIP 52232 is tabulated inside Poweshiek County, Iowa, one of 8 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 970 across Iowa. This is one of the smallest tabulated ZIP areas in the state, the kind of rural route where a single subdivision or farm cluster accounts for most addresses. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 52232 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 52232 reports a median household income of $95,313, 40% above the $67,917 county median, and 34% above the $71,182 typical IA ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $234,800, 21% above the county figure and 55% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $771 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Iowa charges 6% statewide, and local governments overlapping 52232 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 52232 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.