Clive, Iowa

Clive population, 2020 to 2024

Clive added 836 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.5%. In the latest year it moved by +406. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 19th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Clive is 2.1 times that size.

Clive covers 7.65 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 2,550 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Clive is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Clive spans

Clive crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 19,508 residents as follows; Polk County holds 57.2% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Clive

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Clive by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50325. 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 Clive is

The Census internal point of Clive is at 41.613200, -93.797900. Des Moines, the capital, is 10.1 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Urbandale, IA (47,759 people), 1.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 10.1 miles away.

Daylight in Clive

At 41.61° N, Clive 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 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Clive

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Urbandale, 1.9 miles away, with 47,759 people.