50981 ZIP Code
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ZIP code 50981 covers Des Moines, Iowa. It has no Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area, which is how the Census Bureau treats ZIP codes that are not residential neighbourhoods — PO box-only ranges, military addresses, and codes assigned to a single large organisation. There are no population or income figures for it because nobody is counted as living there.
- Time zone
- Central UTC-06:00observes daylight saving time
Where 50981 is
Des Moines, Iowa — the point the Postal Service gives for this ZIP code. A ZIP code is a set of delivery routes rather than an area, so this marks its centre, not its boundary.
Climate
NOAA US Climate Normals 1991-2020, from the nearest weather station with a full year of records. The station and its distance are named above, because a station forty kilometres away describes somewhere else.
| Weather station | ANKENY, IA US9.2 km away |
|---|---|
| Rain in a year | 37 in |
| Snow in a year | 25 in |
Average high and low by month
| January | 29.5°F / 11.7°F0.97 in rain, 6.2 in snow |
|---|---|
| February | 34.2°F / 16°F0.99 in rain, 8 in snow |
| March | 47.4°F / 27.4°F2.01 in rain, 3.7 in snow |
| April | 61°F / 38.1°F4 in rain, 0.7 in snow |
| May | 71.9°F / 50.3°F5.26 in rain |
| June | 81.8°F / 60.8°F5.37 in rain |
| July | 85.7°F / 64.7°F4.19 in rain |
| August | 83.7°F / 61.7°F4.72 in rain |
| September | 77.1°F / 52.9°F3.62 in rain |
| October | 63.6°F / 40.5°F2.67 in rain, 0.6 in snow |
| November | 47.8°F / 28.9°F1.86 in rain, 1 in snow |
| December | 34.7°F / 18°F1.39 in rain, 4.5 in snow |
Nearby ZIP codes
The closest ZIP codes by centre point, which is not the same as sharing a border.
| 50301 Des Moines, IA | 0 km away |
|---|---|
| 50302 Des Moines, IA | 0 km away |
| 50303 Des Moines, IA | 0 km away |
| 50304 Des Moines, IA | 0 km away |
| 50305 Des Moines, IA | 0 km away |
| 50306 Des Moines, IA | 0 km away |
| 50308 Des Moines, IA | 0 km away |
| 50318 Des Moines, IA | 0 km away |
Location, counties and time zone
County shares from Census 2020 ZCTA relationship files. Time zone from the USDOT National Transportation Atlas, which renders the boundaries written into 49 CFR Part 71.
| Time zone | Central (UTC-06:00 standard) |
|---|---|
| Daylight saving time | Observed |
| Latitude, longitude | 41.6727, -93.5722 |
Figures are published for this ZIP code or its Census tabulation area unless a section says otherwise. Estimates whose margin of error made them unreliable are omitted rather than shown. Sources: US Census Bureau, CDC, IRS.