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Alvord city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Alvord city is a Census city of 173 people across 0.58 square miles of land, in Lyon County. Median household income is $73,594, 97.0 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Alvord
What Alvord is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.58 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land300 plus or minus 97
- County holding the largest share of its areaLyon 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.
Alvord
How many people live in Alvord
- Population173 plus or minus 56
- Median age38.9 plus or minus 12.8
- Population under 1845 plus or minus 25
- Share under 1826.0 percent plus or minus 11.9
- Population 65 and over39 plus or minus 16
- Share 65 and over22.5 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Households67 plus or minus 21
- Family households51 plus or minus 16
- Share of households that are families76.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alvord
Income and work in Alvord
- Median household income$73,594
- Per capita income$33,605
- Civilian labor force86 plus or minus 33
- Employed84 plus or minus 33
- Unemployed2 plus or minus 3
- Unemployment rate2.3 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Adults 25 and over112 plus or minus 34
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher14.3 percent plus or minus 13.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.9 percent plus or minus 9.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alvord
Housing in Alvord
- Housing units89 plus or minus 24
- Occupied units67 plus or minus 21
- Vacant units22 plus or minus 17
- Vacancy rate24.7 percent plus or minus 17.9
- Owner occupied65 plus or minus 21
- Renter occupied2 plus or minus 3
- Ownership rate97.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$93,000 plus or minus $25,151
- Single family units87 plus or minus 26
- Share single family97.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes2 plus or minus 4
- Median year structure built1942
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alvord
How Alvord gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute81 plus or minus 34
- Commuting under 15 minutes10 plus or minus 8
- Share commuting under 15 minutes12.3 percent plus or minus 8.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more28 plus or minus 20
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more34.6 percent plus or minus 19.3
- Drove alone73.8 percent
- Carpooled22.6 percent plus or minus 14.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home3.6 percent plus or minus 3.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lyon County, not Alvord
Lyon County context, not Alvord figures
These are Lyon County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Alvord measurements.
- Establishments in Lyon County402
- Employment at those establishments, Lyon County3,746
- Covered employment, Lyon County4,794
- Average annual pay, Lyon County$49,696
- Average weekly wage, Lyon County$956
- Housing units permitted, Lyon County63
- Of those, single family, Lyon County63
- County product, 2024, Lyon County$1,425,377,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lyon County19.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lyon County$57,020
Every figure in this section is published for Lyon County as a whole and is not a measurement of Alvord. 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
Alvord questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Alvord, Iowa?
173, in 67 households. Alvord city covers 0.58 square miles of land, which is 300 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Alvord in?
Lyon 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 Alvord?
$73,594. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $93,000. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Alvord figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lyon 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 Alvord.
Is zoning published for Alvord?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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