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Elkader city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Elkader city is a Census city of 1,293 people across 1.37 square miles of land, in Clayton County. Median household income is $62,857, 74.6 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Elkader
What Elkader is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.37 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land946
- County holding the largest share of its areaClayton 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.
Elkader
How many people live in Elkader
- Population1,293
- Median age40.5
- Population under 18313 plus or minus 75
- Share under 1824.2 percent
- Population 65 and over354
- Share 65 and over27.4 percent
- Households574
- Family households321 plus or minus 69
- Share of households that are families55.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Elkader
Income and work in Elkader
- Median household income$62,857 plus or minus $17,268
- Per capita income$38,661 plus or minus $8,557
- Civilian labor force580
- Employed580
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over913
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher26.0 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.9 percent plus or minus 3.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Elkader
Housing in Elkader
- Housing units678
- Occupied units574
- Vacant units104 plus or minus 48
- Vacancy rate15.3 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Owner occupied428
- Renter occupied146 plus or minus 61
- Ownership rate74.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$143,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$859
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.4 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Single family units518
- Share single family76.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more144 plus or minus 53
- Share in buildings of two or more21.2 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Mobile homes16 plus or minus 17
- Median year structure built1953
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Elkader
How Elkader gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute507
- Commuting under 15 minutes282 plus or minus 70
- Share commuting under 15 minutes55.6 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more93 plus or minus 35
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more18.3 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Drove alone76.0 percent plus or minus 21.0
- Carpooled1.9 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Public transport0.7 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Walked8.4 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Worked from home12.6 percent plus or minus 7.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Clayton County, not Elkader
Clayton County context, not Elkader figures
These are Clayton County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Elkader measurements.
- Establishments in Clayton County487
- Employment at those establishments, Clayton County4,999
- Covered employment, Clayton County6,230
- Average annual pay, Clayton County$51,349
- Average weekly wage, Clayton County$987
- Housing units permitted, Clayton County55
- Of those, single family, Clayton County49
- County product, 2024, Clayton County$1,176,802,000
- County product change over the prior year, Clayton County3.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Clayton County$60,058
Every figure in this section is published for Clayton County as a whole and is not a measurement of Elkader. 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.
- 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
Elkader questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Elkader, Iowa?
1,293, in 574 households. Elkader city covers 1.37 square miles of land, which is 946 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Elkader in?
Clayton 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 Elkader?
$62,857. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $143,200. Median gross rent is $859 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Elkader figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Clayton 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 Elkader.
Is zoning published for Elkader?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.