Boone, Iowa

Boone population, 2020 to 2024

Boone added 13 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +74. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 51st; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Boone is 1.3 times that size.

Boone covers 9.14 square miles of land, for 1,363 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Boone is close to the typical town.

What county Boone is in

All of Boone's residents live in Boone County, which had 26,729 residents in 2024. Boone holds 46.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Boone

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Boone by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50036. 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 Boone is

The Census internal point of Boone is at 42.049300, -93.872500. Des Moines, the capital, is 34.6 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ames, IA (69,026 people), 13.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 35.6 miles away.

Daylight in Boone

At 42.05° N, Boone gets about 15 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Boone

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Ogden, 8.0 miles away, with 1,970 people.