ZIP code 52217 in Iowa had 135 Social Security beneficiaries in December 2024

ZIP code 52217 in Iowa had 135 Social Security beneficiaries in December 2024, an increase of 10 from December 2023. That change represents an 8% rise. ZIP-level figures are controlled-rounded by the Social Security Administration and should be considered approximate.

The Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program, commonly called Social Security, pays monthly benefits to eligible 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 were the largest category with 110 reported beneficiaries, accounting for 81.5% of the total. Both Disabled workers and Widow(er)s and parents had 10 beneficiaries each, representing 7.4% apiece; the official tie-resolution note indicates they are tied for the second-largest category. Children accounted for 5 beneficiaries, or 3.7%, while Spouses were reported as zero. By age, 110 beneficiaries were 65 or older, representing approximately 81.5% across the five categories.

Year-over-year, Retired workers rose by 5 beneficiaries. Disabled workers and Children showed no change from the previous year. Widow(er)s and parents increased by 5, while Spouses remained reported as zero, indicating the figure was too small to report in both periods. The sum of the rounded category figures adds to the reported total for this ZIP code, though that alignment is not guaranteed each year because each category is rounded independently.

Total reported benefits distributed in ZIP code 52217 in December 2024 amounted to $222,000. The average monthly benefit per beneficiary was about $1,644. Both figures are source-rounded and approximate for that month.

The seven published December readings for ZIP code 52217 cover 2018 through 2024. Over that period the reported beneficiary counts fluctuated, and the 2024 reading was higher than any prior December in the published data. These are published readings only; ZIPs with low counts are not released by the Social Security Administration.

Statewide, Iowa reported 701,239 Social Security beneficiaries in December 2024, an increase of 13,609 from the previous year. ZIP code 52217’s share of the state total is approximate because of ZIP rounding. The ZIP tied for 651st place among 969 published ZIP Codes in Iowa, with 17 ZIPs sharing that rank. Iowa’s reported rate was 218.4 beneficiaries per 1,000 state residents, based on 2024 Census data. That rate exceeded the pooled comparison rate of 200.2 beneficiaries per 1,000 residents across the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Statewide figures use SSA-assigned ZIP Codes from address records, which can reflect a representative payee’s address rather than the beneficiary’s own.

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 refer to beneficiaries in current-payment status in December, with ZIP Codes assigned from SSA address records—which may reflect a representative payee’s or recipient’s address rather than the beneficiary’s. ZIP Code counts are controlled-rounded by SSA, generally to the nearest multiple of five, and each category is rounded independently, so sums may not always match the ZIP total. Rows with low counts are omitted from the source; absent rows indicate unavailable data, not zero. Only published annual readings are shown and statewide context uses the published state-total record rather than summing ZIP rows. The 51-jurisdiction comparison is a pooled beneficiary-to-population ratio, not a national rate or the mean of jurisdiction rates.