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Story City, Iowa

Story City is a city in Story County, Iowa with an estimated 3,439 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 112th largest of 273 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
3,439
#112 of 273 in Iowa
Change since 2020
+2.7%
+90 people
Land area
3.0 sq mi
Density
1,158 / sq mi
State median 1,363
Orange pin: Story City. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Des Moines.

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Story City population, 2020 to 2024

Story City added 90 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +26.

3,34920203,38320213,37720223,41320233,4392024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 3,351. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Story City covers 2.97 square miles of land, for 1,158 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Story City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Story City is in

All of Story City's residents live in Story County, which had 102,498 residents in 2024. Story City holds 3.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Story City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Story City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50248. 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 Story City is

The Census internal point of Story City is at 42.185700, -93.586900. Des Moines, the capital, is 41.1 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ames, IA (69,026 people), 11.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 42.4 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
42.185700, -93.586900
DMS
42°11'8.52"N 93°35'12.84"W
UTM
15N 451535.8E 4670561.3N
Geohash
9zmryrsje
Plus code
86J85CP7+76

Daylight in Story City

At 42.19° N, Story City gets about 15 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 10 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Story City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Roland, 4.5 miles away, with 1,376 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Story City, IA?

3,439 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 90 (2.7%) from 3,349 in July 2020.

What county is Story City in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Story City?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 50248.

How far is Story City from Des Moines?

41.1 miles (66.1 km) in a straight line, heading S from Story City.

What is the nearest larger city to Story City?

Ames, IA, with 69,026 residents, 11.2 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.