Norwalk, Iowa

Norwalk population, 2020 to 2024

Norwalk added 2,479 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +19.2%. In the latest year it moved by +525. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 4th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Norwalk is 1.6 times that size.

Norwalk covers 11.65 square miles of land and 0.36 of water, for 1,322 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Norwalk is close to the typical town.

What county Norwalk is in

All of Norwalk's residents live in Warren County, which had 56,343 residents in 2024. Norwalk holds 27.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Norwalk

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Norwalk by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50061, 50211. 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 Norwalk is

The Census internal point of Norwalk is at 41.483700, -93.695500. Des Moines, the capital, is 8.8 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is West Des Moines, IA (73,664 people), 6.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 7.6 miles away.

Daylight in Norwalk

At 41.48° N, Norwalk gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 01 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Norwalk

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is West Des Moines, 6.4 miles away, with 73,664 people.