Hiawatha, Iowa

Hiawatha population, 2020 to 2024

Hiawatha added 167 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +147. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 34th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Hiawatha is 77% of it.

Hiawatha covers 4.76 square miles of land, for 1,543 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Hiawatha is denser than the typical town.

What county Hiawatha is in

All of Hiawatha's residents live in Linn County, which had 231,762 residents in 2024. Hiawatha holds 3.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hiawatha

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Hiawatha by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 52233, 52411. 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 Hiawatha is

The Census internal point of Hiawatha is at 42.056100, -91.689900. Des Moines, the capital, is 103.7 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Marion, IA (42,542 people), 5.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cedar Rapids, IA, 6.4 miles away.

Daylight in Hiawatha

At 42.06° N, Hiawatha gets about 15 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hiawatha

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Robins, 1.8 miles away, with 3,362 people.