Pella, Iowa

Pella population, 2020 to 2024

Pella added 493 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.7%. In the latest year it moved by +152. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 18th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Pella is 1.2 times that size.

Pella covers 9.34 square miles of land, for 1,174 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Pella is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Pella spans

Pella crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 10,965 residents as follows; Marion County holds 100.0% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pella

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pella by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50219. 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 Pella is

The Census internal point of Pella is at 41.404700, -92.917400. Des Moines, the capital, is 37.8 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oskaloosa, IA (11,575 people), 16.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 37.7 miles away.

Daylight in Pella

At 41.40° N, Pella gets about 15 h 10 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 Pella

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Knoxville, 11.3 miles away, with 7,440 people.