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Minden city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Minden city is a Census city of 630 people across 0.57 square miles of land, in Pottawattamie County. Median household income is $109,167, 84.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $45,000.
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Minden
What Minden is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.57 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,112 plus or minus 240
- County holding the largest share of its areaPottawattamie 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.
Minden
How many people live in Minden
- Population630 plus or minus 136
- Median age31.3
- Population under 18175 plus or minus 51
- Share under 1827.8 percent
- Population 65 and over67 plus or minus 21
- Share 65 and over10.6 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Households224
- Family households178 plus or minus 38
- Share of households that are families79.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Minden
Income and work in Minden
- Median household income$109,167 plus or minus $22,452
- Per capita income$38,191
- Civilian labor force371 plus or minus 83
- Employed368 plus or minus 82
- Unemployed3 plus or minus 4
- Unemployment rate0.8 percent plus or minus 1.1
- Adults 25 and over398 plus or minus 85
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher99.5 percent plus or minus 28.1
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher29.4 percent plus or minus 8.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.5 percent plus or minus 3.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Minden
Housing in Minden
- Housing units224
- Occupied units224
- Vacant units0
- Vacancy rate0.0 percent
- Owner occupied190
- Renter occupied34 plus or minus 17
- Ownership rate84.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$170,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$700
- Annual rent as a share of median income7.7 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Single family units208
- Share single family92.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more16 plus or minus 14
- Share in buildings of two or more7.1 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1961
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Minden
How Minden gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute340 plus or minus 85
- Commuting under 15 minutes42 plus or minus 23
- Share commuting under 15 minutes12.4 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more230 plus or minus 70
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more67.6 percent
- Drove alone84.1 percent
- Carpooled5.9 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.6 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Worked from home8.4 percent plus or minus 3.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Minden
SBA 7(a) lending to Minden borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$45,000
- Average approval$45,000
- Median approval$45,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$45,000
- Largest approval$45,000
- Jobs supported0
- Jobs per approval0.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term84 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Pottawattamie County, not Minden
Pottawattamie County context, not Minden figures
These are Pottawattamie County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Minden measurements.
- Establishments in Pottawattamie County1,920
- Employment at those establishments, Pottawattamie County32,384
- Covered employment, Pottawattamie County41,403
- Average annual pay, Pottawattamie County$56,397
- Average weekly wage, Pottawattamie County$1,085
- Housing units permitted, Pottawattamie County681
- Of those, single family, Pottawattamie County105
- County product, 2024, Pottawattamie County$6,263,240,000
- County product change over the prior year, Pottawattamie County6.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Pottawattamie County$49,744
Every figure in this section is published for Pottawattamie County as a whole and is not a measurement of Minden. 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.
- 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
Minden questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Minden, Iowa?
630, in 224 households. Minden city covers 0.57 square miles of land, which is 1,112 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Minden in?
Pottawattamie 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 Minden?
$109,167. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $170,500. Median gross rent is $700 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Minden businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $45,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $45,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Minden, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Minden borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Minden. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Minden figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Pottawattamie 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 Minden.
Is zoning published for Minden?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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