Estherville, Iowa

Estherville population, 2020 to 2024

Estherville lost 75 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.3%. In the latest year it moved by -75. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 70th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Estherville is 61% of it.

Estherville covers 5.39 square miles of land, for 1,075 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Estherville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Estherville is in

All of Estherville's residents live in Emmet County, which had 9,162 residents in 2024. Estherville holds 63.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Estherville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Estherville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 51334. 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 Estherville is

The Census internal point of Estherville is at 43.399700, -94.834200. Des Moines, the capital, is 139.8 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Spencer, IA (11,418 people), 23.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sioux Falls, SD, 95.6 miles away.

Daylight in Estherville

At 43.40° N, Estherville gets about 15 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 57 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 Estherville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Spirit Lake, 14.0 miles away, with 5,548 people.