Arcadia, IA population, income and ZIP codes

Arcadia city is a very small community in Iowa, with 859 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #328 of 1,026 ranked by population — larger than 68% of them. The median age here is 22.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Arcadia city earn a median of $69,408 a year, 11.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $67,791 median for the 290 Iowa cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 3.5% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Arcadia city is valued at $139,500, 54% below the national figure and 11% below the $156,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $816 a month, 42% below the national figure, or roughly $9,792 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.1% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 63.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 22.8 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 859 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Arcadia city against its county rather than against national figures.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.