Little Sioux, IA population, income and ZIP codes

Little Sioux city is a very small community in Iowa, with 122 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #825 of 1,026 ranked by population — larger than 19% of them. The median age here is 59.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Little Sioux 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 27.9% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Little Sioux city is valued at $37,100, 87.8% below the national figure and 76% below the $156,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 89.1% 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.

A median age of 59.3 puts Little Sioux city well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 122 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Little Sioux city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, gross rent for Little Sioux 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.