Nevada, Iowa

Nevada population, 2020 to 2024

Nevada added 167 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +73. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 31st; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Nevada is 74% of it.

Nevada covers 5.95 square miles of land, for 1,190 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Nevada is less dense than the typical town.

What county Nevada is in

All of Nevada's residents live in Story County, which had 102,498 residents in 2024. Nevada holds 6.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Nevada

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Nevada by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50201. 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 Nevada is

The Census internal point of Nevada is at 42.017500, -93.469700. Des Moines, the capital, is 30.3 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ames, IA (69,026 people), 7.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 31.6 miles away.

Daylight in Nevada

At 42.02° N, Nevada 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 Nevada

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Ames, 7.8 miles away, with 69,026 people.