Elk Run Heights, Iowa

Elk Run Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Elk Run Heights lost 4 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +3.

Elk Run Heights covers 1.08 square miles of land, for 982 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Elk Run Heights is less dense than the typical town.

What county Elk Run Heights is in

All of Elk Run Heights's residents live in Black Hawk County, which had 132,348 residents in 2024. Elk Run Heights holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Elk Run Heights

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Elk Run Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50703, 50707. 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 Elk Run Heights is

The Census internal point of Elk Run Heights is at 42.468800, -92.256000. Des Moines, the capital, is 92.0 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Evansdale, IA (4,515 people), 0.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cedar Rapids, IA, 45.7 miles away.

Daylight in Elk Run Heights

At 42.47° N, Elk Run Heights gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Elk Run Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Evansdale, 0.7 miles away, with 4,515 people.