Adel, Iowa

Adel population, 2020 to 2024

Adel added 584 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.5%. In the latest year it moved by +254. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 10th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Adel is 71% of it.

Adel covers 5.39 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,255 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Adel is close to the typical town.

What county Adel is in

All of Adel's residents live in Dallas County, which had 115,343 residents in 2024. Adel holds 5.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Adel

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Adel by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50003. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Adel is

The Census internal point of Adel is at 41.609400, -94.012700. Des Moines, the capital, is 21.2 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Waukee, IA (34,420 people), 6.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 20.9 miles away.

Daylight in Adel

At 41.61° N, Adel gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Adel

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Dallas Center, 5.5 miles away, with 1,993 people.