Iowa · Census place 1920035

Denver, Iowa

Denver is a city in Bremer County, Iowa with an estimated 1,955 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 174th largest of 273 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,955
#174 of 273 in Iowa
Change since 2020
+1.5%
+28 people
Land area
1.7 sq mi
Density
1,150 / sq mi
State median 1,363
Orange pin: Denver. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Des Moines.

Denver population, 2020 to 2024

Denver added 28 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.5%. In the latest year it moved by +4.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,927. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Denver covers 1.70 square miles of land, for 1,150 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Denver is less dense than the typical town.

What county Denver is in

All of Denver's residents live in Bremer County, which had 25,328 residents in 2024. Denver holds 7.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Denver

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Denver by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50622. 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 Denver is

The Census internal point of Denver is at 42.668200, -92.333900. Des Moines, the capital, is 98.9 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Waverly, IA (10,576 people), 7.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cedar Rapids, IA, 59.0 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
42.668200, -92.333900
DMS
42°40'5.52"N 92°20'2.04"W
UTM
15N 554584.0E 4724185.1N
Geohash
9zw6dzs82
Plus code
86J9MM98+7C

Daylight in Denver

At 42.67° N, Denver gets about 15 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Denver

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Janesville, 6.7 miles away, with 1,052 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Denver, IA?

1,955 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 28 (1.5%) from 1,927 in July 2020.

What county is Denver in?

Bremer County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Denver?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 50622.

How far is Denver from Des Moines?

98.9 miles (159.1 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Denver.

What is the nearest larger city to Denver?

Waverly, IA, with 10,576 residents, 7.8 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.