Maquoketa, Iowa

Maquoketa population, 2020 to 2024

Maquoketa lost 58 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +16. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 65th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Maquoketa is 64% of it.

Maquoketa covers 4.52 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,342 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Maquoketa is close to the typical town.

What county Maquoketa is in

All of Maquoketa's residents live in Jackson County, which had 19,390 residents in 2024. Maquoketa holds 31.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Maquoketa

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Maquoketa by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 52060. 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 Maquoketa is

The Census internal point of Maquoketa is at 42.060500, -90.663900. Des Moines, the capital, is 154.8 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Clinton, IA (24,118 people), 26.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Davenport, IA, 34.9 miles away.

Daylight in Maquoketa

At 42.06° N, Maquoketa 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 Maquoketa

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is DeWitt, 17.5 miles away, with 5,620 people.