Windsor Heights, Iowa

Windsor Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Windsor Heights lost 130 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +18. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 80th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Windsor Heights is 54% of it.

Windsor Heights covers 1.43 square miles of land, for 3,571 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Windsor Heights is denser than the typical town.

What county Windsor Heights is in

All of Windsor Heights's residents live in Polk County, which had 516,185 residents in 2024. Windsor Heights holds 1.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Windsor Heights

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Windsor Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50324. 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 Windsor Heights is

The Census internal point of Windsor Heights is at 41.604500, -93.712800. Des Moines, the capital, is 5.7 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Urbandale, IA (47,759 people), 4.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 5.7 miles away.

Daylight in Windsor Heights

At 41.60° N, Windsor Heights 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 Windsor Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Urbandale, 4.1 miles away, with 47,759 people.