Sergeant Bluff, Iowa

Sergeant Bluff population, 2020 to 2024

Sergeant Bluff added 325 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.5%. In the latest year it moved by +39. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 15th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Sergeant Bluff is 56% of it.

Sergeant Bluff covers 2.97 square miles of land, for 1,796 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Sergeant Bluff is denser than the typical town.

What county Sergeant Bluff is in

All of Sergeant Bluff's residents live in Woodbury County, which had 107,257 residents in 2024. Sergeant Bluff holds 5.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sergeant Bluff

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sergeant Bluff by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 51054. 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 Sergeant Bluff is

The Census internal point of Sergeant Bluff is at 42.397500, -96.350900. Des Moines, the capital, is 151.7 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is South Sioux City, NE (13,910 people), 5.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Omaha, NE, 79.9 miles away.

Daylight in Sergeant Bluff

At 42.40° N, Sergeant Bluff gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sergeant Bluff

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Sioux City, 7.0 miles away, with 86,875 people.