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Melrose city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Melrose city is a Census city of 115 people across 1.02 square miles of land, in Monroe County. Median household income is $56,250, 95.9 percent of occupied homes are owned.
48 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
This is a small place, and the figures below carry wide margins.
The American Community Survey reaches Melrose through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 115 with a margin of error of plus or minus 68, which is 59.1 percent of the estimate itself. Every figure whose margin reaches 20 percent is printed with that margin beside it, so you can see the width of each one rather than having to assume it.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
Melrose
What Melrose is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.02 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land113 plus or minus 67
- County holding the largest share of its areaMonroe 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.
Melrose
How many people live in Melrose
- Population115 plus or minus 68
- Median age51.5 plus or minus 42.3
- Population under 1815 plus or minus 18
- Share under 1813.0 percent plus or minus 13.2
- Population 65 and over50 plus or minus 30
- Share 65 and over43.5 percent
- Households49 plus or minus 27
- Family households35 plus or minus 26
- Share of households that are families71.4 percent plus or minus 35.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Melrose
Income and work in Melrose
- Median household income$56,250 plus or minus $21,633
- Per capita income$21,000 plus or minus $9,053
- Civilian labor force38 plus or minus 27
- Employed20 plus or minus 15
- Unemployed18 plus or minus 24
- Unemployment rate47.4 percent plus or minus 53.4
- Adults 25 and over82 plus or minus 45
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher90.2 percent plus or minus 65.3
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher3.7 percent plus or minus 13.5
- 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.
Melrose
Housing in Melrose
- Housing units57 plus or minus 27
- Occupied units49 plus or minus 27
- Vacant units8 plus or minus 9
- Vacancy rate14.0 percent plus or minus 14.3
- Owner occupied47 plus or minus 26
- Renter occupied2 plus or minus 3
- Ownership rate95.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$75,000 plus or minus $70,509
- Single family units57 plus or minus 27
- Share single family100.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Melrose
How Melrose gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute20 plus or minus 15
- Commuting under 15 minutes5 plus or minus 12
- Share commuting under 15 minutes25.0 percent plus or minus 58.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more13 plus or minus 13
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more65.0 percent plus or minus 45.8
- Drove alone80.0 percent plus or minus 36.1
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked20.0 percent plus or minus 31.6
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Monroe County, not Melrose
Monroe County context, not Melrose figures
These are Monroe County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Melrose measurements.
- Establishments in Monroe County183
- Employment at those establishments, Monroe County2,403
- Covered employment, Monroe County3,718
- Average annual pay, Monroe County$66,659
- Average weekly wage, Monroe County$1,282
- Housing units permitted, Monroe County8
- Of those, single family, Monroe County8
- County product, 2024, Monroe County$618,965,000
- County product change over the prior year, Monroe County1.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Monroe County$54,451
Every figure in this section is published for Monroe County as a whole and is not a measurement of Melrose. 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
Melrose questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Melrose, Iowa?
115, in 49 households. Melrose city covers 1.02 square miles of land, which is 113 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Melrose in?
Monroe 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 Melrose?
$56,250. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $75,000. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Melrose figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Monroe 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 Melrose.
Is zoning published for Melrose?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.