Linden, IA population, income and ZIP codes

Linden city is a very small community in Iowa, with 163 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #748 of 1,026 ranked by population — larger than 27% of them. The median age here is 32 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 Linden city earn a median of not published a year. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 12.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Linden city is valued at $106,300, 65% below the national figure and 32% below the $156,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,250 a month, 11.1% below the national figure, or roughly $15,000 across a full year. 60% 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.

With 163 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Linden city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Linden 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.