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Lucas city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Lucas city is a Census city of 145 people across 0.98 square miles of land, in Lucas County. Median household income is $25,500, 84.5 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Lucas
What Lucas is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.98 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land148 plus or minus 71
- County holding the largest share of its areaLucas 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.
Lucas
How many people live in Lucas
- Population145 plus or minus 70
- Median age31.9 plus or minus 7.0
- Population under 1851 plus or minus 28
- Share under 1835.2 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Population 65 and over26 plus or minus 18
- Share 65 and over17.9 percent plus or minus 8.8
- Households58 plus or minus 21
- Family households32 plus or minus 15
- Share of households that are families55.2 percent plus or minus 16.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lucas
Income and work in Lucas
- Median household income$25,500 plus or minus $17,824
- Per capita income$20,924 plus or minus $10,746
- Civilian labor force43 plus or minus 26
- Employed43 plus or minus 26
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over93 plus or minus 32
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher81.7 percent plus or minus 19.9
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher14.0 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.
Lucas
Housing in Lucas
- Housing units70 plus or minus 24
- Occupied units58 plus or minus 21
- Vacant units12 plus or minus 12
- Vacancy rate17.1 percent plus or minus 16.1
- Owner occupied49 plus or minus 20
- Renter occupied9 plus or minus 8
- Ownership rate84.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$33,800 plus or minus $24,757
- Single family units55 plus or minus 23
- Share single family78.6 percent plus or minus 19.5
- Units in buildings of two or more4 plus or minus 11
- Share in buildings of two or more5.7 percent plus or minus 15.3
- Mobile homes11 plus or minus 10
- Median year structure built1963
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lucas
How Lucas gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute43 plus or minus 26
- Commuting under 15 minutes9 plus or minus 16
- Share commuting under 15 minutes20.9 percent plus or minus 34.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more22 plus or minus 19
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more51.2 percent plus or minus 32.7
- Drove alone93.0 percent plus or minus 79.2
- Carpooled7.0 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lucas County, not Lucas
Lucas County context, not Lucas figures
These are Lucas County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Lucas measurements.
- Establishments in Lucas County187
- Employment at those establishments, Lucas County4,663
- Covered employment, Lucas County3,351
- Average annual pay, Lucas County$50,709
- Average weekly wage, Lucas County$975
- Housing units permitted, Lucas County29
- Of those, single family, Lucas County3
- County product, 2024, Lucas County$362,431,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lucas County1.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lucas County$51,122
Every figure in this section is published for Lucas County as a whole and is not a measurement of Lucas. 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
Lucas questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Lucas, Iowa?
145, in 58 households. Lucas city covers 0.98 square miles of land, which is 148 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Lucas in?
Lucas 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 Lucas?
$25,500. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $33,800. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Lucas figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lucas 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 Lucas.
Is zoning published for Lucas?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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