What is the population of Vinton city?

Vinton city has 4,948 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #87 of 1,026 in Iowa.

What is the median household income in Vinton city?

Median household income in Vinton city is $65,488 a year, 16.6% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $868 a month and the median home value is $146,400, so rent absorbs about 15.9% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Vinton city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 15.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Vinton, IA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Vinton, Iowa (Vinton, IA — Census place “Vinton city”) is 4,948 residents, ranking #87 of 1026 places in Iowa. Median household income is $65,488, the median home is worth $146,400 and median gross rent runs $868 a month. Looking for the Vinton Iowa ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Vinton, IA: 52349.

Population: 4,948Vinton city residents
Median household income: $65,488Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $146,400Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $868Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 44.4 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 76.7%Owner-occupied households

Vinton ZIP codes (Iowa)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Vinton.

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

52349

What the numbers mean in Vinton city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Vinton city median would spend about 15.9% 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 2.2× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 12.3% of residents and 76.7% of households own their home.

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

Vinton city, IA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Vinton city is a small town in Iowa, with 4,948 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #87 of 1,026 ranked by population — larger than 91% of them. The median age here is 44.4 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 Vinton city earn a median of $65,488 a year, 16.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 3% 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 12.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Vinton city is valued at $146,400, 51.7% below the national figure and 6% below the $156,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $868 a month, 38.3% below the national figure, or roughly $10,416 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.9% 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 2.2×, 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. 76.7% 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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Frequently asked questions

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What is the population of Vinton city?: Vinton city has 4,948 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #87 of 1,026 in Iowa.
What is the median household income in Vinton city?: Median household income in Vinton city is $65,488 a year, 16.6% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Vinton city?: Median gross rent is $868 a month and the median home value is $146,400, so rent absorbs about 15.9% of median household income.
Is Vinton city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Vinton city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 15.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Vinton city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.