Spirit Lake, Iowa

Spirit Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Spirit Lake added 84 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.5%. In the latest year it moved by -5. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 39th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Spirit Lake is 58% of it.

Spirit Lake covers 4.52 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,227 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Spirit Lake is close to the typical town.

What county Spirit Lake is in

All of Spirit Lake's residents live in Dickinson County, which had 18,158 residents in 2024. Spirit Lake holds 30.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Spirit Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Spirit Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 51360. 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 Spirit Lake is

The Census internal point of Spirit Lake is at 43.416700, -95.113100. Des Moines, the capital, is 147.7 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Estherville, IA (5,796 people), 14.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sioux Falls, SD, 81.6 miles away.

Daylight in Spirit Lake

At 43.42° N, Spirit Lake gets about 15 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Spirit Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Arnolds Park, 4.0 miles away, with 1,214 people.