Data Trend Reports & Datasets
Data Trend Reports focus on details of Iowa's demographic, economic, and social trends. The reports, with visuals and maps, help you to understand recent changes as well as a longer-term view. The reports provide comparisons among Iowa's counties, discussion about broader factors, and links to additional material and information. Included in the reports are tables with longitudinal data that make finding longer-term information relatively easy for many indicators. The datasets provide information in downloadable spreadsheets.
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City Data, Decennial Census 2020
This Excel file shows the 2020 and 2010 populations for Iowa’s cities along with numerical and percentage change.
Population & Demographics
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County Data, Decennial Census 2020
This Excel file shows the 2020 and 2010 populations for Iowa’s counties along with numerical and percentage change.
Population & Demographics
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Decennial Census Population Counts
Historical counts of the total population for U.S. states, Iowa’s counties, and Iowa’s incorporated cities by decade from 1850-2020.
Population & Demographics
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Detailed Census Counts by Hispanic Origin and Race Group 1980-2010
Total population by race group and race group breakouts by Hispanic origin for Iowa’s counties for 1980-2010.
Population & Demographics
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Educational Attainment in Iowa: 1940 – 2021
Eighty years of education levels for Iowans are analyzed for the state and counties through visuals and tables.
Education
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Elderly Percentage of the Population, Historical
Percentage of the total population age 65 years or older in Iowa’s counties by decade from 1930-2010.
Population & Demographics
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Income Trends in Iowa: 1949 – 2023
This report provides, through visuals and tables, an overview of Iowa’s statewide and county-level income trends.
Income & Poverty
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Iowa Housing Trends: 1940 – 2017
This housing report explores trends for Iowa, both statewide and county-level, with maps, visuals, and tables.
Housing
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Population in Iowa, 1840 – 2020
Iowa’s statewide trends in total population since 1840 are charted in this report.
Population & Demographics
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Population in Iowa’s Counties, 2000 – 2020
County-level total population changes in Iowa since the year 2000 are analyzed with maps and tables.
Population & Demographics
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Population in Iowa’s Extension Regions, 2000 – 2020
This report reviews, with maps and tables, total population changes since the year 2000 in Iowa’s Extension regions.
Population & Demographics
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Population in the United States, 2000 – 2020
U.S. and state total population changes since the year 2000 are analyzed using visuals and tables.
Population & Demographics
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Race and Hispanic Origin in Iowa, 1980 - 2020
Visual and tables show Iowa’s forty-year population trends in race and Hispanic Origin.
Population & Demographics
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Race and Hispanic or Latino in Iowa’s Counties, 2000 - 2020
Twenty years of county-level trends in race and Hispanic Origin in Iowa are reviewed with maps and tables.
Population & Demographics
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Urban and Rural Population in Iowa’s Counties, 1940 - 2020
Iowa’s statewide and county-level urban and rural populations are analyzed for sixty years with visuals and tables.
Population & Demographics
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Urban Percentage of the Population, Historical
Percentage of the total population living in areas designated as “urban” in Iowa’s counties and states by decade from 1900-2010.
Population & Demographics
