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Dawson city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Dawson city is a Census city of 102 people across 0.49 square miles of land, in Dallas County. Median household income is $65,313, 90.7 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Dawson
What Dawson is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.49 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land206 plus or minus 83
- County holding the largest share of its areaDallas 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.
Dawson
How many people live in Dawson
- Population102 plus or minus 41
- Median age54.3
- Population under 1815 plus or minus 13
- Share under 1814.7 percent plus or minus 11.8
- Population 65 and over22 plus or minus 20
- Share 65 and over21.6 percent plus or minus 17.8
- Households54 plus or minus 25
- Family households24 plus or minus 16
- Share of households that are families44.4 percent plus or minus 21.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dawson
Income and work in Dawson
- Median household income$65,313 plus or minus $20,059
- Per capita income$37,812
- Civilian labor force62 plus or minus 25
- Employed62 plus or minus 25
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over81 plus or minus 35
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher87.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.9 percent plus or minus 15.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dawson
Housing in Dawson
- Housing units64 plus or minus 28
- Occupied units54 plus or minus 25
- Vacant units10 plus or minus 14
- Vacancy rate15.6 percent plus or minus 20.8
- Owner occupied49 plus or minus 25
- Renter occupied5 plus or minus 5
- Ownership rate90.7 percent plus or minus 19.5
- Median owner-occupied home value$92,500 plus or minus $36,233
- Single family units57 plus or minus 29
- Share single family89.1 percent plus or minus 22.5
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes7 plus or minus 6
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dawson
How Dawson gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute54 plus or minus 26
- Commuting under 15 minutes25 plus or minus 25
- Share commuting under 15 minutes46.3 percent plus or minus 41.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more19 plus or minus 15
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more35.2 percent plus or minus 22.8
- Drove alone83.3 percent plus or minus 23.0
- Carpooled6.7 percent plus or minus 9.6
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home10.0 percent plus or minus 12.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dallas County, not Dawson
Dallas County context, not Dawson figures
These are Dallas County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Dawson measurements.
- Establishments in Dallas County2,521
- Employment at those establishments, Dallas County46,640
- Covered employment, Dallas County55,258
- Average annual pay, Dallas County$76,316
- Average weekly wage, Dallas County$1,468
- Housing units permitted, Dallas County1,513
- Of those, single family, Dallas County883
- County product, 2024, Dallas County$11,106,538,000
- County product change over the prior year, Dallas County7.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Dallas County$79,519
Every figure in this section is published for Dallas County as a whole and is not a measurement of Dawson. 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
Dawson questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Dawson, Iowa?
102, in 54 households. Dawson city covers 0.49 square miles of land, which is 206 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Dawson in?
Dallas 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 Dawson?
$65,313. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $92,500. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Dawson figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Dallas 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 Dawson.
Is zoning published for Dawson?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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