Perry, Iowa

Perry population, 2020 to 2024

Perry added 177 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.2%. In the latest year it moved by +25. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 35th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Perry is 85% of it.

Perry covers 5.79 square miles of land, for 1,390 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Perry is close to the typical town.

What county Perry is in

All of Perry's residents live in Dallas County, which had 115,343 residents in 2024. Perry holds 7.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Perry

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Perry by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50220. 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 Perry is

The Census internal point of Perry is at 41.837900, -94.093300. Des Moines, the capital, is 30.5 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Boone, IA (12,461 people), 18.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 30.9 miles away.

Daylight in Perry

At 41.84° N, Perry gets about 15 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 05 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Perry

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Woodward, 8.9 miles away, with 1,383 people.