Palo, Iowa

Palo population, 2020 to 2024

Palo added 146 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.4%. In the latest year it moved by +51.

Palo covers 1.20 square miles of land, for 1,295 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Palo is close to the typical town.

What county Palo is in

All of Palo's residents live in Linn County, which had 231,762 residents in 2024. Palo holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Palo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Palo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 52324. 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 Palo is

The Census internal point of Palo is at 42.064200, -91.799300. Des Moines, the capital, is 98.5 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hiawatha, IA (7,347 people), 5.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cedar Rapids, IA, 9.3 miles away.

Daylight in Palo

At 42.06° N, Palo 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 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Palo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Hiawatha, 5.6 miles away, with 7,347 people.