ZIP code 50122 in Iowa had 335 Social Security beneficiaries in December 2024

ZIP code 50122 in Iowa had a reported total of 335 Social Security beneficiaries in December 2024, unchanged from the reported December 2023 figure. All ZIP-level figures are controlled-rounded by the Social Security Administration, so each count is approximate rather than exact.

The Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program, commonly called Social Security, pays monthly benefits to qualified retired and disabled workers, their dependents and survivors of insured workers. Eligibility and benefit amounts are determined by a worker’s Social Security-covered earnings and contributions rather than financial need. OASDI is separate from Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, which provides benefits largely based on limited income and resources and is funded through general federal tax revenues rather than employment taxes.

In December 2024, ZIP code 50122’s category breakdown included 275 retired workers, about 82.1% of beneficiaries, and 30 disabled workers, about 9%. The next-largest group was widow(er)s and parents with 15 (4.5%), followed by 10 children (3%) and 5 spouses (1.5%). Retired workers and disabled workers were the largest and second-largest categories, respectively. About 290 beneficiaries, or an estimated 86.6%, were aged 65 or older; that age group overlaps all five categories rather than forming a separate category.

Year over year, ZIP code 50122 reported a 10-person increase in retired workers, while widow(er)s and parents fell by 5 and spouses declined by 5. Disabled workers and children showed no reported change from December 2023. Retired workers rose 3.8%; widow(er)s and parents fell 25%, and spouses declined 50%. There were no reported changes for disabled workers or children. The reported category figures for 2024 add to the overall published total, though that alignment is coincidental because each figure is rounded independently.

For December 2024, ZIP code 50122’s reported total monthly benefit was $625,000. The approximate average monthly benefit per beneficiary was $1,866. Both figures are source-rounded and should be treated as approximate.

The December 2024 beneficiary count is part of a published series beginning in 2018 that includes seven readings through 2024. ZIP code 50122’s beneficiary levels have been steady since 2020, after increases in earlier years and no reported movement following 2020. These figures reflect published December readings only; suppressed or omitted years are not included.

Iowa’s statewide total for December 2024 was reported as 701,239 beneficiaries, an increase from December 2023. ZIP code 50122 represented about 0% of the statewide total because of ZIP-level rounding. Among the 969 published ZIP code rows in Iowa, ZIP code 50122 tied for 375th, sharing the rank with five other ZIP codes. Iowa’s December 2024 statewide beneficiary rate was 218.4 per 1,000 residents, above the pooled comparison rate across the 50 states and the District of Columbia, which was 200.2 per 1,000 residents based on 2024 population data. Statewide figures come from the published state-total record, and ZIP assignment uses address records that may not precisely reflect beneficiary residence.

Beneficiary and benefit figures are drawn from OASDI Beneficiaries by State and ZIP Code, 2024, and state population data are from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey. Counts are for beneficiaries in current-payment status in December, assigning ZIP Codes using Social Security Administration address records, which may reflect a representative payee’s address. ZIP-level counts are controlled-rounded, typically to the nearest five; categories are rounded independently and, in this reporting year, happen to sum to the reported total. ZIP rows below the SSA publication threshold are omitted, so missing data reflect unavailability rather than zero, and the observed trends include only published years. National, state-total, and SSA field-office rows are excluded as ZIP story subjects; statewide context refers to the published state-total record, not a sum of ZIP rows. The 51-jurisdiction comparison is a pooled beneficiary-to-population ratio, not a national rate or a simple mean of jurisdiction rates.