Mount Pleasant, Iowa

Mount Pleasant population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Pleasant lost 758 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -8.2%. In the latest year it moved by -97. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 85th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Mount Pleasant is 89% of it.

Mount Pleasant covers 8.63 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 986 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Mount Pleasant is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mount Pleasant is in

All of Mount Pleasant's residents live in Henry County, which had 19,361 residents in 2024. Mount Pleasant holds 43.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Pleasant

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mount Pleasant by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 52641. 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 Mount Pleasant is

The Census internal point of Mount Pleasant is at 40.962200, -91.547200. Des Moines, the capital, is 115.3 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fairfield, IA (9,511 people), 22.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Davenport, IA, 63.9 miles away.

Daylight in Mount Pleasant

At 40.96° N, Mount Pleasant gets about 15 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 14 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 Mount Pleasant

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is New London, 8.1 miles away, with 1,853 people.