Chatsworth, IA population, income and ZIP codes

Chatsworth city is a very small community in Iowa, with 80 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #887 of 1,026 ranked by population — larger than 13% of them. The median age here is 31.8 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 Chatsworth city earn a median of $45,556 a year, 42% below the national figure of $78,538 and 33% below the $67,791 median for the 290 Iowa cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 15% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Chatsworth city is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $740 a month, 47.4% below the national figure, or roughly $8,880 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 81% 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. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

With 80 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Chatsworth city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Chatsworth 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.