Dedham, IA population, income and ZIP codes

Dedham city is a very small community in Iowa, with 262 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #642 of 1,026 ranked by population — larger than 37% of them. The median age here is 32.5 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 Dedham city earn a median of $87,083 a year, 10.9% above the national figure of $78,538 and 28% above 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 17.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Dedham city is valued at $132,400, 56.4% below the national figure and 15% below the $156,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.5×, 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. 97.7% 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.

Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not. With 262 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Dedham city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Dedham 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.