Bristow, IA population, income and ZIP codes

Bristow city is a very small community in Iowa, with 173 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #732 of 1,026 ranked by population — larger than 28% of them. The median age here is 44 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Bristow city earn a median of not published a year. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 18.5% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Bristow city is valued at $54,400, 82.1% below the national figure and 65% below the $156,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $375 a month, 73.3% below the national figure, or roughly $4,500 across a full year. 85% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 173 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Bristow city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Bristow city because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.