Grundy Center, Iowa

Grundy Center population, 2020 to 2024

Grundy Center added 11 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +8.

Grundy Center covers 2.57 square miles of land, for 1,098 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Grundy Center is less dense than the typical town.

What county Grundy Center is in

All of Grundy Center's residents live in Grundy County, which had 12,405 residents in 2024. Grundy Center holds 22.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Grundy Center

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Grundy Center by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50638. 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 Grundy Center is

The Census internal point of Grundy Center is at 42.363700, -92.774000. Des Moines, the capital, is 68.3 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hudson, IA (2,916 people), 17.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cedar Rapids, IA, 62.5 miles away.

Daylight in Grundy Center

At 42.36° N, Grundy Center gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Grundy Center

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Reinbeck, 9.6 miles away, with 1,673 people.