Iowa · Census place 1948720

Malvern, Iowa

Malvern is a city in Mills County, Iowa with an estimated 1,056 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 267th largest of 273 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,056
#267 of 273 in Iowa
Change since 2020
+2.3%
+24 people
Land area
1.6 sq mi
Density
664 / sq mi
State median 1,363
Orange pin: Malvern. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Des Moines.

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Malvern population, 2020 to 2024

Malvern added 24 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +8.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,038. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Malvern covers 1.59 square miles of land, for 664 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Malvern is less dense than the typical town.

What county Malvern is in

All of Malvern's residents live in Mills County, which had 14,717 residents in 2024. Malvern holds 7.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Malvern

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Malvern by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 51551. 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 Malvern is

The Census internal point of Malvern is at 41.003700, -95.584100. Des Moines, the capital, is 110.5 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Glenwood, IA (5,250 people), 8.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Omaha, NE, 30.3 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
41.003700, -95.584100
DMS
41°00'13.32"N 95°35'2.76"W
UTM
15N 282675.0E 4542384.4N
Geohash
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Plus code
86H62C38+F9

Daylight in Malvern

At 41.00° N, Malvern gets about 15 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Malvern

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Glenwood, 8.6 miles away, with 5,250 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Malvern, IA?

1,056 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 24 (2.3%) from 1,032 in July 2020.

What county is Malvern in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Malvern?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 51551.

How far is Malvern from Des Moines?

110.5 miles (177.8 km) in a straight line, heading ENE from Malvern.

What is the nearest larger city to Malvern?

Glenwood, IA, with 5,250 residents, 8.6 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.