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Dickens city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Dickens city is a Census city of 131 people across 0.83 square miles of land, in Clay County. Median household income is $71,250, 91.1 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Dickens
What Dickens is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.83 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land157 plus or minus 56
- County holding the largest share of its areaClay County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dickens
How many people live in Dickens
- Population131 plus or minus 47
- Median age55.1
- Population under 1812 plus or minus 14
- Share under 189.2 percent plus or minus 10.5
- Population 65 and over36 plus or minus 17
- Share 65 and over27.5 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Households56 plus or minus 19
- Family households47 plus or minus 16
- Share of households that are families83.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dickens
Income and work in Dickens
- Median household income$71,250 plus or minus $48,610
- Per capita income$35,338
- Civilian labor force84 plus or minus 41
- Employed82 plus or minus 41
- Unemployed2 plus or minus 3
- Unemployment rate2.4 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Adults 25 and over103 plus or minus 33
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher4.9 percent plus or minus 11.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.0 percent plus or minus 10.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dickens
Housing in Dickens
- Housing units70 plus or minus 22
- Occupied units56 plus or minus 19
- Vacant units14 plus or minus 12
- Vacancy rate20.0 percent plus or minus 15.9
- Owner occupied51 plus or minus 19
- Renter occupied5 plus or minus 5
- Ownership rate91.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$99,300 plus or minus $22,664
- Single family units52 plus or minus 19
- Share single family74.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes18 plus or minus 14
- Median year structure built1971
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dickens
How Dickens gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute77 plus or minus 40
- Commuting under 15 minutes38 plus or minus 24
- Share commuting under 15 minutes49.4 percent plus or minus 17.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more10 plus or minus 13
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more13.0 percent plus or minus 15.7
- Drove alone89.6 percent plus or minus 65.1
- Carpooled10.4 percent plus or minus 18.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Clay County, not Dickens
Clay County context, not Dickens figures
These are Clay County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Dickens measurements.
- Establishments in Clay County570
- Employment at those establishments, Clay County7,012
- Covered employment, Clay County8,534
- Average annual pay, Clay County$53,504
- Average weekly wage, Clay County$1,029
- Housing units permitted, Clay County9
- Of those, single family, Clay County9
- County product, 2024, Clay County$1,539,920,000
- County product change over the prior year, Clay County8.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Clay County$56,054
Every figure in this section is published for Clay County as a whole and is not a measurement of Dickens. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Dickens questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Dickens, Iowa?
131, in 56 households. Dickens city covers 0.83 square miles of land, which is 157 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Dickens in?
Clay County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Dickens?
$71,250. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $99,300. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Dickens figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Clay County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Dickens.
Is zoning published for Dickens?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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