Maharishi Vedic City, IA population, income and ZIP codes

Maharishi Vedic City city is a very small community in Iowa, with 233 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #664 of 1,026 ranked by population — larger than 35% of them. The median age here is 69.5 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 Maharishi Vedic City city earn a median of $62,813 a year, 20% below the national figure of $78,538 and 7% below the $67,791 median for the 290 Iowa cities we cover. 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 13% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Maharishi Vedic City city is valued at $328,600, 8.3% above the national figure and 110% above the $156,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,101 a month, 21.7% below the national figure, or roughly $13,212 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 42.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 69.5 puts Maharishi Vedic City 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 233 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Maharishi Vedic City city against its county rather than against national figures.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.