Council Bluffs, Iowa

Council Bluffs population, 2020 to 2024

Council Bluffs lost 119 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +130. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 55th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Council Bluffs is 6.6 times that size.

Council Bluffs covers 42.96 square miles of land and 2.71 of water, for 1,459 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Council Bluffs is close to the typical town.

What county Council Bluffs is in

All of Council Bluffs's residents live in Pottawattamie County, which had 93,529 residents in 2024. Council Bluffs holds 67.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Council Bluffs

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Council Bluffs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 51501, 51503. 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 Council Bluffs is

The Census internal point of Council Bluffs is at 41.236000, -95.853200. Des Moines, the capital, is 119.1 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bellevue, NE (64,777 people), 7.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Omaha, NE, 10.6 miles away.

Daylight in Council Bluffs

At 41.24° N, Council Bluffs gets about 15 h 09 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Council Bluffs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Carter Lake, 4.9 miles away, with 3,752 people.