Muscatine, Iowa

Muscatine population, 2020 to 2024

Muscatine lost 459 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.9%. In the latest year it moved by -102. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 77th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Muscatine is 2.4 times that size.

Muscatine covers 18.20 square miles of land and 1.05 of water, for 1,280 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Muscatine is close to the typical town.

What county Muscatine is in

All of Muscatine's residents live in Muscatine County, which had 42,132 residents in 2024. Muscatine holds 55.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Muscatine

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Muscatine by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 52761. 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 Muscatine is

The Census internal point of Muscatine is at 41.419100, -91.067900. Des Moines, the capital, is 131.8 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rock Island, IL (36,434 people), 25.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Davenport, IA, 25.8 miles away.

Daylight in Muscatine

At 41.42° N, Muscatine gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Muscatine

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Wilton, 11.9 miles away, with 2,914 people.