Grimes, Iowa

Grimes population, 2020 to 2024

Grimes added 1,548 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.8%. In the latest year it moved by +737. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 9th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Grimes is 1.8 times that size.

Grimes covers 13.11 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,317 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Grimes is close to the typical town.

The 2 counties Grimes spans

Grimes crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 17,266 residents as follows; Polk County holds 99.8% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Grimes

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Grimes by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50111. 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 Grimes is

The Census internal point of Grimes is at 41.677600, -93.802100. Des Moines, the capital, is 11.9 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Urbandale, IA (47,759 people), 3.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 12.3 miles away.

Daylight in Grimes

At 41.68° N, Grimes gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Grimes

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Urbandale, 3.0 miles away, with 47,759 people.