Statewide Iowa — (RI) — Iowa is among the 42 states that saw population growth from July of 2018 to July of 2019.
U-S Census Bureau data released Monday shows Iowa’s overall population grew ever so slightly from year-to-year, by about 64-hundred people. Gary Krob is coordinator for the State Data Center in the State Library of Iowa. He says Iowa is on track to see population growth for the DECADE of about three-point-six percent.
Updated population estimates for Iowa’s 99 counties will be released in March. In June, updated census data for cities will be released.
Iowa’s population growth can largely be attributed to having more people from other countries move into Iowa. That’s because nearly 29-thousand Iowa residents have moved to another state this decade.
Among Iowa’s neighbors, Illinois saw significant population losses and Iowa’s population growth rate was higher than it was in Missouri, Kansas and Wisconsin. Population gains in Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota were higher than Iowa’s.
