Lake City, Iowa

Lake City population, 2020 to 2024

Lake City lost 60 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.5%. In the latest year it moved by -16.

Lake City covers 4.82 square miles of land, for 344 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Lake City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lake City is in

All of Lake City's residents live in Calhoun County, which had 9,711 residents in 2024. Lake City holds 17.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 51449. 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 Lake City is

The Census internal point of Lake City is at 42.267700, -94.731100. Des Moines, the capital, is 74.4 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rockwell City, IA (2,185 people), 10.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 75.0 miles away.

Daylight in Lake City

At 42.27° N, Lake City 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 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lake City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Rockwell City, 10.4 miles away, with 2,185 people.