Indianola, Iowa

Indianola population, 2020 to 2024

Indianola added 434 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +187. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 30th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Indianola is 1.7 times that size.

Indianola covers 11.44 square miles of land, for 1,425 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Indianola is close to the typical town.

What county Indianola is in

All of Indianola's residents live in Warren County, which had 56,343 residents in 2024. Indianola holds 28.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Indianola

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Indianola by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50125. 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 Indianola is

The Census internal point of Indianola is at 41.363000, -93.565500. Des Moines, the capital, is 15.9 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Des Moines, IA (213,096 people), 14.7 miles away.

Daylight in Indianola

At 41.36° N, Indianola gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Indianola

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Norwalk, 10.7 miles away, with 15,396 people.