ZIP 50028 vs ZIP 50127

This side-by-side compares ZIP 50028 (Baxter, IA) and ZIP 50127 (Ira, IA) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 50028 has a population of 1,681 at 15 people per square mile, while ZIP 50127 has 29 at 1,026 per square mile. That difference in population size and density alone reshapes how every other metric should be interpreted — a higher-income ZIP with 1,200 residents behaves very differently from one with 45,000.

On income and education, ZIP 50028 reports a median household income of $72,022 against — in ZIP 50127, with per-capita income of $41,275 vs —. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 19.7% in 50028 and 0.0% in 50127. Poverty rate reads 10.4% vs 0.0%, and unemployment 1.4% vs 0.0% — these four fields alone drive most of the difference in the scorecard grades you will see for each ZIP.

Housing separates these two ZIPs further: median home value sits at $206,300 in 50028 versus — in 50127, with median rent of $900 and — per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 82.3% vs 100.0%. When reading the comparison table below, focus on paired metrics rather than single winners — a ZIP with lower home values and lower income is not strictly "worse" if rent-to-income ratios and commute times land in the same zone. Every value is pulled from the exact same ACS table so the two columns are genuinely comparable.