Is population growing or shrinking?

Refreshed annually
It grew by 30 between 2024 and 2025. Changes in population can reflect birth and death rates, immigration patterns, regional shifts, and even the overall health of the economy. The 0.18% annual increase was primarily driven by people moving from other states.
In the decade between 2015 and 2025, Iowa County, IA’s population grew by 1.3%.

+30

population change (2024 to 2025)

+0.18%

percent change in population (2024 to 2025)
Since 2000, Iowa County, IA’s population increased 12 out of 25 years. The largest increase occurred between 2009 and 2010, when Iowa County, IA gained 572 residents. Its largest decline occurred between 2011 and 2012 when there were 141 fewer residents.

Iowa County, IA gained 30 residents between 2024 and 2025.

Annual population change, 2001–2025

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What contributes to population change in Iowa County, IA?

A county’s population is influenced by three factors:
  • Natural population change: If births outnumber deaths in a given year, natural population growth is positive. If deaths exceed births, it is negative. Between 2024 and 2025 natural population change was negative in Iowa County, IA, with deaths exceeding births by three.
  • Immigration: international migration directly into or out of a county: If more people move in than move out, population change from immigration is positive. If more people move out than move in, it’s negative. Between 2024 to 2025, Iowa County, IA’s population change from immigration was positive with about zero more people coming from another country directly to Iowa County, IA than leaving.
  • Domestic migration, moving between counties: Between 2024 to 2025, Iowa County, IA’s population change from domestic migration was positive with about 33 more people moving from any other county in the US.

Between 2024 and 2025, domestic migration was the primary driver of population growth in Iowa County, IA.

Components of population change from previous year, 2011–2025

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