Waukee, Iowa

Waukee population, 2020 to 2024

Waukee added 10,052 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +41.3%. In the latest year it moved by +2,670. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 2nd; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Waukee is 3.6 times that size.

Waukee covers 21.91 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 1,571 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Waukee is denser than the typical town.

What county Waukee is in

All of Waukee's residents live in Dallas County, which had 115,343 residents in 2024. Waukee holds 29.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Waukee

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Waukee by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50003, 50263. 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 Waukee is

The Census internal point of Waukee is at 41.590500, -93.882800. Des Moines, the capital, is 14.4 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is West Des Moines, IA (73,664 people), 6.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 14.2 miles away.

Daylight in Waukee

At 41.59° N, Waukee gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Waukee

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Clive, 4.7 miles away, with 19,508 people.