What is the population of Estherville city?

Estherville city has 5,865 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #68 of 1,026 in Iowa.

What is the median household income in Estherville city?

Median household income in Estherville city is $54,624 a year, 30.4% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Estherville city?

Median gross rent is $739 a month and the median home value is $96,300, so rent absorbs about 16.2% of median household income.

Is Estherville city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 1.8× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Estherville city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.2% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Estherville, IA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Estherville, Iowa (Estherville, IA — Census place “Estherville city”) is 5,865 residents, ranking #68 of 1026 places in Iowa. Median household income is $54,624, the median home is worth $96,300 and median gross rent runs $739 a month. Looking for the Estherville Iowa ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Estherville, IA: 51334.

Population: 5,865Estherville city residents
Median household income: $54,624Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $96,300Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $739Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 40.5 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 71.6%Owner-occupied households

Estherville ZIP codes (Iowa)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Estherville.

The Estherville IA ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

51334

What the numbers mean in Estherville city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Estherville city median would spend about 16.2% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 1.8× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 12.8% of residents and 71.6% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Estherville city, IA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Estherville city is a mid-size town in Iowa, with 5,865 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #68 of 1,026 ranked by population — larger than 93% of them. The median age here is 40.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Estherville city earn a median of $54,624 a year, 30.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 19% 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 12.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Estherville city is valued at $96,300, 68.3% below the national figure and 38% below the $156,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $739 a month, 47.4% below the national figure, or roughly $8,868 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.2% 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 1.8×, 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. 71.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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.

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What is the population of Estherville city?: Estherville city has 5,865 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #68 of 1,026 in Iowa.
What is the median household income in Estherville city?: Median household income in Estherville city is $54,624 a year, 30.4% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Estherville city?: Median gross rent is $739 a month and the median home value is $96,300, so rent absorbs about 16.2% of median household income.
Is Estherville city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.8× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Estherville city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.2% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Estherville city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.