Iowa · Census place 1933420

Guthrie Center, Iowa

Guthrie Center is a city in Guthrie County, Iowa with an estimated 1,579 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 199th largest of 273 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,579
#199 of 273 in Iowa
Change since 2020
-0.3%
-4 people
Land area
2.4 sq mi
Density
663 / sq mi
State median 1,363
Orange pin: Guthrie Center. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Des Moines.

Guthrie Center population, 2020 to 2024

Guthrie Center lost 4 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.3%. In the latest year it moved by -8.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,588. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Guthrie Center covers 2.38 square miles of land, for 663 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Guthrie Center is less dense than the typical town.

What county Guthrie Center is in

All of Guthrie Center's residents live in Guthrie County, which had 10,774 residents in 2024. Guthrie Center holds 14.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Guthrie Center

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Guthrie Center by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50115. 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 Guthrie Center is

The Census internal point of Guthrie Center is at 41.677900, -94.499200. Des Moines, the capital, is 46.6 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Stuart, IA (1,887 people), 15.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 46.5 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
41.677900, -94.499200
DMS
41°40'40.44"N 94°29'57.12"W
UTM
15N 375214.0E 4615100.5N
Geohash
9zkv1e5z3
Plus code
86H7MGH2+58

Daylight in Guthrie Center

At 41.68° N, Guthrie Center 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 Guthrie Center

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Panora, 7.0 miles away, with 1,096 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Guthrie Center, IA?

1,579 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 4 (0.3%) from 1,583 in July 2020.

What county is Guthrie Center in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Guthrie Center?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 50115.

How far is Guthrie Center from Des Moines?

46.6 miles (75.0 km) in a straight line, heading E from Guthrie Center.

What is the nearest larger city to Guthrie Center?

Stuart, IA, with 1,887 residents, 15.4 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.