ZIP code 50232 in Iowa had 115 Social Security beneficiaries in December 2024

ZIP code 50232 in Iowa had 115 Social Security beneficiaries in December 2024, the same reported total as December 2023. These ZIP-level figures are controlled-rounded by the SSA to the nearest multiple of five and should be regarded as approximate.

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 based largely on limited income and resources and is funded through general federal tax revenues rather than employment taxes.

Retired workers made up 85 beneficiaries in December 2024, representing about 73.9% of the reported total. Disabled workers were the next-largest group with 15 beneficiaries, or around 13%. Widow(er)s and parents, spouses, and children each accounted for 5 beneficiaries, or about 4.3% each. These figures reflect the reported program composition, with retired workers the largest category followed by disabled workers. There were 100 reported beneficiaries aged 65 or older in December 2024, making up an approximate 87% share of all five categories combined. The age measure spans all recorded categories and is not an additional category itself.

Over the year, each beneficiary category in ZIP code 50232 was reported unchanged, with no rise or fall in any group. Counts for every category, including retired workers, disabled workers, widow(er)s and parents, spouses, and children, remained the same from December 2023 to December 2024. The category figures for December 2024 add up to the reported total, though such alignment is not assured every year given independent rounding.

For December 2024, Social Security beneficiaries in ZIP code 50232 were reported to have received $214,000 in monthly benefits. The approximate average monthly benefit per beneficiary was about $1,861; both figures are based on source-rounded data for the reporting period.

The December 2024 total was the seventh published observation for ZIP code 50232, with published figures spanning each year from 2018 through 2024. Over this seven-year span, the number of reported beneficiaries for the ZIP fluctuated, rising and falling in individual years. The 2024 reported total matched the prior year and sits within the range of earlier published counts. These figures represent only published December readings for the ZIP, as years with low counts are omitted from the source.

Across Iowa, there were 701,239 Social Security beneficiaries reported in December 2024, up by 13,609 from the previous year. ZIP code 50232 accounted for approximately 0% of the statewide total, based on its rounded reported figure. The ZIP tied for the 703rd position out of 969 published ZIP rows in Iowa, with 16 ZIPs at this rank. Statewide, the December 2024 rate was 218.4 beneficiaries per 1,000 Iowa residents, based on 2024 population data from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey. This rate was above the pooled comparison rate of 200.2 across the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Statewide context in the story is based on the published Iowa state-total record, never on sums of ZIP rows. SSA assigns ZIP codes from address records, which may sometimes reflect a representative payee’s address instead of the beneficiary’s.

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 and assign ZIP Code based on SSA address records, which can reflect a representative payee’s address. ZIP-level data are controlled-rounded, generally to the nearest five; category figures are rounded independently and may, but do not always, sum to the reported ZIP total. Omitted ZIP rows mean figures are unavailable, not zero, and trends include only published years. The national, state-total and field-office rows are excluded as ZIP story subjects, and state context uses the published total for Iowa rather than summed ZIPs. The comparison of 51 jurisdictions uses a pooled beneficiary-to-population ratio, not a national rate or the unweighted mean of jurisdiction rates.