ZIP code 52347 in Iowa had 365 Social Security beneficiaries in December 2024

ZIP code 52347 in Iowa had 365 Social Security beneficiaries in December 2024, an increase of 10 from December 2023. The figure is approximate because ZIP-level counts are controlled-rounded by the Social Security Administration, generally to the nearest multiple of five.

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 based on a worker’s Social Security-covered earnings and contributions, not financial need. OASDI is separate from Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, which provides benefits based mainly on limited income and resources and is funded through general federal tax revenues rather than employment taxes.

Within the five reported beneficiary categories, retired workers were the largest group with 305 beneficiaries, making up 83.6% of the total. Disabled workers were the second-largest group with 25 beneficiaries, or 6.8%. Widow(er)s and parents accounted for 20, spouses for 5, and children for 10, with shares of 5.5%, 1.4% and 2.7% respectively. Of all Social Security beneficiaries in the ZIP, 320 were aged 65 or older—approximately 87.7%—a measure that spans all five categories.

Year-over-year, the number of retired workers rose by 15, while counts for disabled workers, widow(er)s and parents, and children were unchanged from the previous year. The number of spouses fell by 5. The reported annual figures for the beneficiary categories add precisely to the reported total because of how the rounding fell for this year, though that alignment is not guaranteed in general.

In December 2024, the reported total monthly benefit for Social Security beneficiaries in ZIP code 52347 was $704,000. The approximate average monthly benefit per beneficiary was about $1,929.

The published series for ZIP code 52347 includes seven December readings, from 2018 through 2024. Over that period, the reported total of Social Security beneficiaries has shown both increases and periods of no change, with the 2024 count higher than any previous published figure for this ZIP code. These are the published December figures for this ZIP, not necessarily every year since its creation, as figures for years with low counts are excluded.

For statewide context, Iowa’s reported total Social Security beneficiary count in December 2024 was 701,239, up by 13,609 from the previous December. ZIP code 52347’s beneficiaries accounted for approximately 0.1% of the statewide total, based on the rounded ZIP figure and the unrounded Iowa figure. The ZIP code tied for the 352nd position among 969 published ZIP rows in Iowa, with two other ZIP codes sharing this rank. Across the state, there were 218.4 Social Security beneficiaries per 1,000 residents in 2024, compared to a pooled rate of 200.2 per 1,000 across the 50 states and the District of Columbia, putting Iowa above that pooled measure. State population context is based on 2024 data. Statewide figures reflect beneficiaries assigned to ZIPs from SSA address records, which can reflect a representative payee’s address rather than the beneficiary’s own.

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 are for 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, though they do in this year for this ZIP. ZIP rows below the SSA publication threshold are omitted, so missing rows indicate 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.