Altoona, Iowa

Altoona population, 2020 to 2024

Altoona added 2,847 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +14.4%. In the latest year it moved by +434. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 7th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Altoona is 2.4 times that size.

Altoona covers 13.31 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,698 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Altoona is denser than the typical town.

What county Altoona is in

All of Altoona's residents live in Polk County, which had 516,185 residents in 2024. Altoona holds 4.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Altoona

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Altoona by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50009. 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 Altoona is

The Census internal point of Altoona is at 41.650600, -93.480000. Des Moines, the capital, is 7.6 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ankeny, IA (76,727 people), 8.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 8.6 miles away.

Daylight in Altoona

At 41.65° N, Altoona gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Altoona

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Bondurant, 3.5 miles away, with 9,511 people.