Cresco, Iowa

Cresco population, 2020 to 2024

Cresco lost 14 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +6.

Cresco covers 3.34 square miles of land, for 1,165 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Cresco is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cresco is in

All of Cresco's residents live in Howard County, which had 9,360 residents in 2024. Cresco holds 41.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cresco

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cresco by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 52136. 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 Cresco is

The Census internal point of Cresco is at 43.371700, -92.116300. Des Moines, the capital, is 144.5 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Decorah, IA (7,454 people), 17.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rochester, MN, 48.0 miles away.

Daylight in Cresco

At 43.37° N, Cresco gets about 15 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cresco

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Decorah, 17.4 miles away, with 7,454 people.