Winterset, Iowa

Winterset population, 2020 to 2024

Winterset added 32 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +28. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 48th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Winterset is 57% of it.

Winterset covers 4.71 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 1,151 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Winterset is less dense than the typical town.

What county Winterset is in

All of Winterset's residents live in Madison County, which had 17,161 residents in 2024. Winterset holds 31.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Winterset

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Winterset by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50273. 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 Winterset is

The Census internal point of Winterset is at 41.349900, -94.018100. Des Moines, the capital, is 27.1 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Adel, IA (6,763 people), 18.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 26.2 miles away.

Daylight in Winterset

At 41.35° N, Winterset gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Winterset

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Earlham, 11.4 miles away, with 1,411 people.