ZIP code 52325 in Iowa had 160 Social Security beneficiaries in December 2024

ZIP code 52325 in Iowa had a reported total of 160 Social Security beneficiaries in December 2024. That is an increase of five beneficiaries, or 3.2%, from December 2023. These ZIP-level counts are controlled-rounded by the Social Security Administration, meaning they are approximate and typically rounded to the nearest five; a missing ZIP row indicates the figure was unavailable for a given year rather than zero.

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, not financial need. OASDI is separate from Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, which pays benefits largely based on limited income and resources and is funded through general federal tax revenues rather than employment taxes.

About 130 were retired workers (81.3%), 15 were disabled workers (9.4%), five were widow(er)s and parents (3.1%), none were reported as spouses (0.0%), and 10 were children (6.3%). Retired workers were the largest group, followed by disabled workers. Across all beneficiary categories, 125 beneficiaries, or about 78.1%, were age 65 or older.

Compared with the previous December, retired workers rose by 10, children remained at 10, and disabled workers stayed at 15. Widow(er)s and parents fell by five, while spouses were again reported as zero, indicating the count was too small to publish rather than absent. Reported category values sum to the rounded ZIP total for the year, although not always, because each figure is rounded independently by the source.

For December 2024, the reported total monthly benefit paid in ZIP code 52325 was $309,000. The approximate average monthly benefit per beneficiary was $1,931. Both the aggregate and average figures reflect controlled-rounded counts and are not exact dollar amounts.

The published record of Social Security beneficiary counts for ZIP code 52325 includes December readings from 2018 through 2024, covering seven published observations. Over that period, the ZIP’s reported count rose from 125 in 2018 to 160 in 2024, with moderate annual changes that reflect a stronger position in recent years compared with earlier published figures. These totals come solely from the SSA’s published records and cover only years when the ZIP met reporting thresholds.

Statewide, Iowa reported 701,239 Social Security beneficiaries in December 2024—an increase of 13,609 from December 2023. ZIP code 52325’s approximate share of that total was 0%, reflecting ZIP-level rounding. The ZIP tied for 603rd place among 969 published ZIP Code rows in Iowa, with eight ZIPs sharing the position. At the statewide level, Iowa had 218.4 beneficiaries per 1,000 residents in 2024, compared to a pooled ratio of 200.2 across the 50 states and the District of Columbia; Iowa’s rate was above the comparison figure for this period. Statewide standing uses the published state-total record rather than a sum of ZIP rows, and counts are assigned from address records, which may sometimes reflect a representative payee rather than the beneficiary’s residence.

Beneficiary and benefit figures come from OASDI Beneficiaries by State and ZIP Code, 2024, and state population data come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey. Counts represent beneficiaries in current-payment status in December and assign ZIP code using SSA address records, which may reflect a representative payee’s address. ZIP-level counts are controlled-rounded, generally to the nearest five; categories are rounded independently and may not sum exactly to the published total. ZIP rows below the SSA publication threshold are omitted, so a missing row means the data were unavailable rather than zero, and trends include only published years. National, state-total and field-office rows are excluded as ZIP story subjects; statewide context uses the published state-total record rather than summed ZIP rows. The 51-jurisdiction comparison is a pooled beneficiary-to-population ratio, not a national rate or an unweighted mean of jurisdiction rates.