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Walker city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Walker city is a Census city of 661 people across 0.75 square miles of land, in Linn County. Median household income is $82,656, 81.3 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Walker
What Walker is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.75 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land883
- County holding the largest share of its areaLinn 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.
Walker
How many people live in Walker
- Population661
- Median age36.0 plus or minus 8.6
- Population under 18155 plus or minus 46
- Share under 1823.4 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Population 65 and over111 plus or minus 27
- Share 65 and over16.8 percent
- Households251
- Family households182 plus or minus 41
- Share of households that are families72.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Walker
Income and work in Walker
- Median household income$82,656
- Per capita income$33,905
- Civilian labor force346 plus or minus 91
- Employed327 plus or minus 80
- Unemployed19 plus or minus 21
- Unemployment rate5.5 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Adults 25 and over433
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.0 percent plus or minus 24.0
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher15.5 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.3 percent plus or minus 4.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Walker
Housing in Walker
- Housing units283
- Occupied units251
- Vacant units32 plus or minus 24
- Vacancy rate11.3 percent plus or minus 8.2
- Owner occupied204
- Renter occupied47 plus or minus 26
- Ownership rate81.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$172,400
- Median gross rent, monthly$808
- Annual rent as a share of median income11.7 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Single family units250 plus or minus 50
- Share single family88.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more31 plus or minus 26
- Share in buildings of two or more11.0 percent plus or minus 9.0
- Mobile homes2 plus or minus 3
- Median year structure built1971
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Walker
How Walker gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute278 plus or minus 75
- Commuting under 15 minutes56 plus or minus 29
- Share commuting under 15 minutes20.1 percent plus or minus 8.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more136 plus or minus 38
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more48.9 percent
- Drove alone71.1 percent
- Carpooled7.1 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked7.8 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Worked from home13.7 percent plus or minus 4.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Linn County, not Walker
Linn County context, not Walker figures
These are Linn County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Walker measurements.
- Establishments in Linn County5,744
- Employment at those establishments, Linn County119,172
- Covered employment, Linn County125,917
- Average annual pay, Linn County$67,613
- Average weekly wage, Linn County$1,300
- Housing units permitted, Linn County1,024
- Of those, single family, Linn County443
- County product, 2024, Linn County$21,899,205,000
- County product change over the prior year, Linn County4.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Linn County$59,503
Every figure in this section is published for Linn County as a whole and is not a measurement of Walker. 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
Walker questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Walker, Iowa?
661, in 251 households. Walker city covers 0.75 square miles of land, which is 883 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Walker in?
Linn 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 Walker?
$82,656. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $172,400. Median gross rent is $808 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 Walker figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Linn 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 Walker.
Is zoning published for Walker?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.