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Alden city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Alden city is a Census city of 833 people across 1.56 square miles of land, in Hardin County. Median household income is $64,500, 68.5 percent of occupied homes are owned.
50 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Alden
What Alden is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.56 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land533
- County holding the largest share of its areaHardin 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.
Alden
How many people live in Alden
- Population833
- Median age40.4
- Population under 18202 plus or minus 51
- Share under 1824.2 percent
- Population 65 and over155 plus or minus 45
- Share 65 and over18.6 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Households362
- Family households213
- Share of households that are families58.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alden
Income and work in Alden
- Median household income$64,500
- Per capita income$32,479
- Civilian labor force435 plus or minus 88
- Employed426
- Unemployed9 plus or minus 14
- Unemployment rate2.1 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Adults 25 and over580
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher87.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.1 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.9 percent plus or minus 5.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alden
Housing in Alden
- Housing units387
- Occupied units362
- Vacant units25 plus or minus 21
- Vacancy rate6.5 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Owner occupied248
- Renter occupied114 plus or minus 45
- Ownership rate68.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$107,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$621
- Annual rent as a share of median income11.6 percent plus or minus 2.5
- Single family units295
- Share single family76.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more90 plus or minus 43
- Share in buildings of two or more23.3 percent plus or minus 10.6
- Mobile homes2 plus or minus 3
- Median year structure built1963
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alden
How Alden gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute396 plus or minus 86
- Commuting under 15 minutes175 plus or minus 48
- Share commuting under 15 minutes44.2 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more59 plus or minus 26
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more14.9 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Drove alone90.4 percent
- Carpooled2.6 percent plus or minus 2.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home7.0 percent plus or minus 6.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hardin County, not Alden
Hardin County context, not Alden figures
These are Hardin County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Alden measurements.
- Establishments in Hardin County499
- Employment at those establishments, Hardin County4,845
- Covered employment, Hardin County6,483
- Average annual pay, Hardin County$54,065
- Average weekly wage, Hardin County$1,040
- Housing units permitted, Hardin County28
- Of those, single family, Hardin County28
- County product, 2024, Hardin County$1,142,119,000
- County product change over the prior year, Hardin County1.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Hardin County$45,163
Every figure in this section is published for Hardin County as a whole and is not a measurement of Alden. 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
Alden questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Alden, Iowa?
833, in 362 households. Alden city covers 1.56 square miles of land, which is 533 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Alden in?
Hardin 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 Alden?
$64,500. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $107,900. Median gross rent is $621 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 Alden figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Hardin 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 Alden.
Is zoning published for Alden?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.