Iowa · Census place 1973515

Slater, Iowa

Slater is a city in Story County, Iowa with an estimated 1,626 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 196th largest of 273 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,626
#196 of 273 in Iowa
Change since 2020
+5.9%
+90 people
Land area
1.9 sq mi
Density
851 / sq mi
State median 1,363
Orange pin: Slater. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Des Moines.

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Slater population, 2020 to 2024

Slater added 90 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.9%. In the latest year it moved by +23.

1,53620201,56120211,57420221,60320231,6262024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,536. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Slater covers 1.91 square miles of land, for 851 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Slater is less dense than the typical town.

What county Slater is in

All of Slater's residents live in Story County, which had 102,498 residents in 2024. Slater holds 1.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Slater

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Slater by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50244. 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 Slater is

The Census internal point of Slater is at 41.880700, -93.691200. Des Moines, the capital, is 20.5 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Huxley, IA (4,737 people), 5.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 21.7 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
41.880700, -93.691200
DMS
41°52'50.52"N 93°41'28.32"W
UTM
15N 442649.5E 4636761.6N
Geohash
9zmqk00hu
Plus code
86H8V8J5+7G

Daylight in Slater

At 41.88° N, Slater gets about 15 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Slater

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Huxley, 5.2 miles away, with 4,737 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Slater, IA?

1,626 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 90 (5.9%) from 1,536 in July 2020.

What county is Slater in?

Story County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Slater?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 50244.

How far is Slater from Des Moines?

20.5 miles (33.0 km) in a straight line, heading SSE from Slater.

What is the nearest larger city to Slater?

Huxley, IA, with 4,737 residents, 5.2 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.