Bettendorf, Iowa

Bettendorf population, 2020 to 2024

Bettendorf added 1,151 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.9%. In the latest year it moved by +340. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 29th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Bettendorf is 4.2 times that size.

Bettendorf covers 21.30 square miles of land and 1.13 of water, for 1,891 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Bettendorf is denser than the typical town.

What county Bettendorf is in

All of Bettendorf's residents live in Scott County, which had 175,601 residents in 2024. Bettendorf holds 22.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bettendorf

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bettendorf by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 52722. 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 Bettendorf is

The Census internal point of Bettendorf is at 41.566800, -90.476900. Des Moines, the capital, is 161.6 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Moline, IL (42,442 people), 5.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Davenport, IA, 6.6 miles away.

Daylight in Bettendorf

At 41.57° N, Bettendorf 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 Bettendorf

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Le Claire, 5.5 miles away, with 4,776 people.