Cherokee, Iowa

Cherokee population, 2020 to 2024

Cherokee lost 9 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.2%. In the latest year it moved by -1. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 54th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Cherokee is 55% of it.

Cherokee covers 6.83 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 759 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Cherokee is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cherokee is in

All of Cherokee's residents live in Cherokee County, which had 11,658 residents in 2024. Cherokee holds 44.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cherokee

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cherokee by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 51012. 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 Cherokee is

The Census internal point of Cherokee is at 42.749500, -95.552200. Des Moines, the capital, is 127.9 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Storm Lake, IA (11,627 people), 19.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sioux Falls, SD, 80.8 miles away.

Daylight in Cherokee

At 42.75° N, Cherokee gets about 15 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cherokee

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Alta, 13.7 miles away, with 2,039 people.