Sioux Center, Iowa

Sioux Center population, 2020 to 2024

Sioux Center added 431 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.2%. In the latest year it moved by +96. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 16th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Sioux Center is 91% of it.

Sioux Center covers 6.40 square miles of land, for 1,355 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Sioux Center is close to the typical town.

What county Sioux Center is in

All of Sioux Center's residents live in Sioux County, which had 36,554 residents in 2024. Sioux Center holds 23.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sioux Center

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sioux Center by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 51250. 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 Sioux Center is

The Census internal point of Sioux Center is at 43.074800, -96.170700. Des Moines, the capital, is 166.4 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Le Mars, IA (10,674 people), 20.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sioux Falls, SD, 42.8 miles away.

Daylight in Sioux Center

At 43.07° N, Sioux Center gets about 15 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sioux Center

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Orange City, 7.7 miles away, with 6,547 people.