Jewell Junction, Iowa

Jewell Junction population, 2020 to 2024

Jewell Junction added 23 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +40.

Jewell Junction covers 3.87 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 319 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Jewell Junction is less dense than the typical town.

What county Jewell Junction is in

All of Jewell Junction's residents live in Hamilton County, which had 14,856 residents in 2024. Jewell Junction holds 8.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Jewell Junction

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Jewell Junction by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50130. 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 Jewell Junction is

The Census internal point of Jewell Junction is at 42.311600, -93.638700. Des Moines, the capital, is 49.8 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Story City, IA (3,439 people), 9.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 51.1 miles away.

Daylight in Jewell Junction

At 42.31° N, Jewell Junction 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 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Jewell Junction

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Story City, 9.1 miles away, with 3,439 people.