back

by andsoitis·4y ago·view on hn ↗
The first house in in zip 50112, which has a 90% higher crime rate than other cities and town in Iowa.
2 comments
Here's a link for houses in Iowa between $150,000 and $250,000, with four or more bed rooms that are larger than 2,500 sq. ft..

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/house_type/4-_beds/1.5...

Source?

That's a highly rural ZIP Code whose principle town is home to Grinnell College.

That hardly strikes me as likely to be a consistently high-crime area, most especially of violent crime.

From the Homesnacks link:

>According to the most recent data from the FBI, the total crime rate in Grinnell is 2,185.9 per 100,000 people. That's -6.83% lower than the national rate of 2,346.0 per 100,000 people and 9.20% higher than the Iowa total crime rate of 2,001.7 per 100,000 people.

Also interesting to compare:

  Location      | Rate
  --------------+-----
  Grinnell, IA  | 2,185
  U.S. Avg.     | 2,346
  San Francisco | 4,938
  Oakland       | 6,456
https://www.homesnacks.com/ca/san-francisco-crime/

https://www.homesnacks.com/ca/oakland-crime/

Your first link is returning 500 errors.

The second ... shows low overall rates of crime, as of a decade ago.

Grinnell has a population < 10k. There's likely some variance over years, and there may be specific years with a large number of reported incidents. There is also the possibility of changes in reporting or enforcement, or of specific events resulting in a large number of charges.

Without more specific and detailed information, I'm going to call your initial claim largely unsupported.

Archives of the HomeSnacks link show a larger number of aggravated assault claims for a single year. What that might be based on deserves further clarification.