Lucas, IA population, income and ZIP codes

Lucas city is a very small community in Iowa, with 137 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #787 of 1,026 ranked by population — larger than 23% of them. The median age here is 41.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Lucas 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 23.4% 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 Lucas city is valued at $34,200, 88.7% below the national figure and 78% below the $156,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 92.5% 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 137 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Lucas city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, gross rent for Lucas 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.