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Houghton city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Houghton city is a Census city of 72 people across 0.30 square miles of land, in Lee County. Median household income is $106,042, 87.1 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Houghton
What Houghton is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.3 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land240 plus or minus 107
- County holding the largest share of its areaLee 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.
Houghton
How many people live in Houghton
- Population72 plus or minus 32
- Median age52.3 plus or minus 28.9
- Population under 1815 plus or minus 16
- Share under 1820.8 percent plus or minus 20.7
- Population 65 and over25 plus or minus 14
- Share 65 and over34.7 percent plus or minus 11.5
- Households31 plus or minus 11
- Family households26 plus or minus 11
- Share of households that are families83.9 percent plus or minus 19.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Houghton
Income and work in Houghton
- Median household income$106,042
- Per capita income$55,511 plus or minus $17,562
- Civilian labor force36 plus or minus 20
- Employed35 plus or minus 21
- Unemployed1 plus or minus 4
- Unemployment rate2.8 percent plus or minus 11.0
- Adults 25 and over57 plus or minus 22
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher100.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher36.8 percent plus or minus 23.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree10.5 percent plus or minus 19.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Houghton
Housing in Houghton
- Housing units33 plus or minus 11
- Occupied units31 plus or minus 11
- Vacant units2 plus or minus 3
- Vacancy rate6.1 percent plus or minus 8.9
- Owner occupied27 plus or minus 11
- Renter occupied4 plus or minus 6
- Ownership rate87.1 percent plus or minus 17.4
- Median owner-occupied home value$252,800 plus or minus $71,373
- Median gross rent, monthly$900 plus or minus $457
- Annual rent as a share of median income10.2 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Single family units31 plus or minus 16
- Share single family93.9 percent plus or minus 35.5
- Units in buildings of two or more2 plus or minus 11
- Share in buildings of two or more6.1 percent plus or minus 33.8
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1974
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Houghton
How Houghton gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute31 plus or minus 20
- Commuting under 15 minutes11 plus or minus 21
- Share commuting under 15 minutes35.5 percent plus or minus 62.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more9 plus or minus 12
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more29.0 percent plus or minus 34.8
- Drove alone82.9 percent plus or minus 28.2
- Carpooled5.7 percent plus or minus 10.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home11.4 percent plus or minus 9.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lee County, not Houghton
Lee County context, not Houghton figures
These are Lee County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Houghton measurements.
- Establishments in Lee County786
- Employment at those establishments, Lee County13,101
- Covered employment, Lee County13,719
- Average annual pay, Lee County$57,333
- Average weekly wage, Lee County$1,103
- Housing units permitted, Lee County54
- Of those, single family, Lee County12
- County product, 2024, Lee County$2,263,540,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lee County1.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lee County$46,952
Every figure in this section is published for Lee County as a whole and is not a measurement of Houghton. 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
Houghton questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Houghton, Iowa?
72, in 31 households. Houghton city covers 0.30 square miles of land, which is 240 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Houghton in?
Lee 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 Houghton?
$106,042. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $252,800. Median gross rent is $900 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 Houghton figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lee 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 Houghton.
Is zoning published for Houghton?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.