Melcher-Dallas, Iowa

Melcher-Dallas population, 2020 to 2024

Melcher-Dallas lost 3 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +12.

Melcher-Dallas covers 1.04 square miles of land, for 1,147 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Melcher-Dallas is less dense than the typical town.

What county Melcher-Dallas is in

All of Melcher-Dallas's residents live in Marion County, which had 34,048 residents in 2024. Melcher-Dallas holds 3.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Melcher-Dallas

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Melcher-Dallas by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50062, 50163. 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 Melcher-Dallas is

The Census internal point of Melcher-Dallas is at 41.227000, -93.241600. Des Moines, the capital, is 31.4 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Knoxville, IA (7,440 people), 9.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 30.6 miles away.

Daylight in Melcher-Dallas

At 41.23° N, Melcher-Dallas gets about 15 h 09 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Melcher-Dallas

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Knoxville, 9.6 miles away, with 7,440 people.